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Re:Pearson takes down 1.5 million teacher/student blogs with... by rlpb on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @02:42AM (#4658678)
> The law, as currently written, basically allows the first group to pressure the second into screwing the third.

The third party can file a counter notice, at which point the second group has no legal obligation to screw the third, nor has any legal liability in not screwing the third. What am I missing?

Re:Pearson takes down 1.5 million teacher/student blogs with... by toyg on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @07:44AM (#4659301)
Third parties rarely counter-claim, because they fear expensive and protracted legal battles; even when they do, it's usually post-disconnection, because ISPs don't like to look bad in the eyes of companies the size of Disney (with their array of mud-slinging lawyers) so they disconnect first and ask questions later.

You have a system that, de facto, introduces incentives for ISPs to disconnect, but no incentive for them to help an innocent third-party or even just carry out due diligence.