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Re:Parents demand academic publisher drop Proctorio surveill... by csharptwdec19 on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @10:47AM (#25507398)
> There should be restrictions on how much DMCA abuse is tolerated before sticking them into “timeout”. And if a legitimate need arises while in timeout, too bad so sad.

Absolutely. The legal world even has a term for this already, "Vexatious Litigant" [0]. We need to start applying this to DMCA requests.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexatious_litigation

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Re:Parents demand academic publisher drop Proctorio surveill... by HowTheStoryEnds on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @06:52PM (#25512855)
It's perjury at 1 so strictly speaking there are restrictions. Problem is that it's too hard/costly to act upon them.
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