You're not allowed to do that without losing the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA. Anything that shows up that matches the format must be obeyed. That's why counter-notifications exist.
Certainly I don't see anything in the law itself that prevents them from verifying that the notice actually comes from the entity claimed, or saying, "Hey buddy, are you sure you really own that?" Which is all I meant by basic checks.
Are you aware of some case law that demonstrates otherwise?
On what do you base your guess? Because as I understand it, your guess is 100% wrong.
One, if I read the safe harbor stuff correctly, then if you ignore a DMCA notice it means you can now be sued for hosting the content. If a host decides they are willing to run that risk, I believe they can happily ignore a DMCA notice.
Two, basic business knowledge. YouTube partners with a lot of the major media companies, and taking down large volumes of their stuff in a way that looks dumb would harm their partnerships. Companies are very reluctant to bite the hand that feeds them.
Three, if someone could take down everything on YouTube by forging a zillion DMCA notices, I expect some enterprising troublemaker would have done it long ago just for the lulz.
Ok! Your turn. What's your evidence? Because that's what I asked for before and nobody replied.
Also, I have heard of this happening with people sharing open source software on bit torrent. This isnt the original article I read but the closest one I could find.[1]
[1] http://max-technology.blogspot.com/2008/12/open-source-torre...
Even in a notice and takedown system, the time required to act on the notice could be increased to ensure that the target has an opportunity to counternotice, and the counternotice could be made immediately effective, rather than effective with a delay.
But the opportunity for counternotice seems like a great idea, perhaps including some discretion for the hosting company. When the DMCA was written, they would have had to allow for a relatively long period. But now that we all have the internet in our pockets, it seems like a few days or maybe a week would be plenty of time.
Patent trolls are ok too ?
http://www.theonion.com/video/nations-parents-release-annual...
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=perfectly%20g...
Recently I found that one of my popular posts on startups had been boosted without permission or credit by some wannabe-accelerator in Texas. I filed a DMCA request and their host took the page down promptly. It just worked.
I'd hope Github is doing some basic checks on requests like this. But I don't want them to try to become a mini-court. We already have a perfectly good court system for resolving ownership disputes.