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Re:Universal asks Google to take down 127.0.0.1 for piracy by yebyen on Friday July 24, 2015 @09:50AM (#9941947)
The GP's point as I read it was actually that if sending take-down requests was _made to be_ expensive, it would be less abused by RIAA types but also would become totally unavailable to the garage-band would-be enforcers.
Re:Universal asks Google to take down 127.0.0.1 for piracy by Drakim on Friday July 24, 2015 @11:29AM (#9942634)
Hmmmm. Optimal would be if it was made to be expensive when used in mass. If somebody sent a single lone take-down request for my work, in genuine mistake, I would not begrudge him at all, and would not seek to penalize them. To err is human.

But if somebody sent a take-down request for my work, and it happened because they had sent a million take-down requests to everything on the internet matching a string search, then I would begrudge them and seek to penalize them. They would have done so KNOWING that a huge percentage of them would be wrong, but deeming it acceptable since it's no cost to them.