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Re:Nintendo is removing switch emulation videos on Steam Dec... by jeroenhd on Thursday March 03, 2022 @05:15PM (#30547781)
The DMCA is ridicously unbalanced. There's no penalty to filing false reports and if you disagree with a claim you have to hand over your personal information and fight it out in court. This is hardly a surprise given that the DMCA was written mostly by the copyright lobby; sadly, the law is working exactly as intended in such cases.

It's time to redo the DMCA, but I fear the copyright industry has only gained a bigger foothold since the DMCA was written.

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Re:Nintendo is removing switch emulation videos on Steam Dec... by kube-system on Thursday March 03, 2022 @05:18PM (#30547806)
You don't even have to file a DMCA takedown request to take down videos from YouTube anyway, they have an entirely extralegal mechanism for taking down videos.
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Re:Nintendo is removing switch emulation videos on Steam Dec... by gzer0 on Thursday March 03, 2022 @05:22PM (#30547852)
Guilty until proven innocent is what the DMCA is. Perhaps one of the most asinine, imbecilic, and nonsensical laws of our time.
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Re:Nintendo is removing switch emulation videos on Steam Dec... by kube-system on Thursday March 03, 2022 @05:30PM (#30547928)
It's also one of the most confused and irrelevant laws when it comes to people discussing how YouTube works. Something like 2% of takedowns on YouTube are through DMCA.
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Re:Nintendo is removing switch emulation videos on Steam Dec... by gzer0 on Friday March 04, 2022 @12:06AM (#30550917)
This is true. The vast majority of YouTube takedowns are via the Content ID system, outnumbering copyright claims 50 to 1. But that doesn't tell the entire story.

The reason why YouTube has such a robust Content ID system in the first place is inherently due to DMCA. The less automated DMCA complaints YouTube receives, the less damage control and legal overhead it will be as expenditure.

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Re:Nintendo is removing switch emulation videos on Steam Dec... by kube-system on Friday March 04, 2022 @12:38AM (#30551068)
Google’s legal overhead would be way worse in the absence of the DMCA, if we were playing by the rules of plain-old copyright. As they wouldn’t have the standardized process and safe harbor that DMCA provides. Reading C&Ds that come in on paper via certified mail is very labor intensive. They’d need Content ID even more in that case.
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