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Re:The cesspool of the internet is to be found in a village ... by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @05:32PM (#26684925)
It might count as being notified of illegal material which they are required by Dutch law to remove.
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Re:The cesspool of the internet is to be found in a village ... by techrat on Saturday April 03, 2021 @05:39PM (#26684965)
Digital Millennium *Copyright* Act.

To use a claim for any purpose other than enforcing your own copyrights (since 'illegal images' is such a broad term) is illegal in of itself.

The DMCA itself has no jurisdiction outside of the US regardless of the person accessing the data is within the US.

In order to submit a DMCA claim, one has to do so under the penalty of perjury.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512

>(vi)A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

A DMCA claim isn't a "notification of illegal images." It is a statement of "I own the (copy)rights to this work and you do not have permission to host/use it."

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Re:The cesspool of the internet is to be found in a village ... by ric2b on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:50AM (#26832729)
Is it even possible to have copyright over illegal content?

Like can a child pornographer sue someone for pirating their content? Sounds absurd to me.

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