- It’s good that the protections in the DCMA system worked, thus demonstrating that DCMA is a fine piece of worthwhile legislation
- The UK is absurdly craven towards US demands at the best of times; we’ll gladly extradite these people to your juristriction and add the cost of that extradition to the bill
This would be a nice precedent. Hold someone accountable for abuse of the DMCA.
I’m still caught up in the idea that a foreign entity can make a DMCA claim and a US entity would have to comply, but the idea of making that foreign entity accountable for its fraud is on shaky jurisdictional grounds.
If that’s true, couldn’t all US companies making these ridiculous DMCA claims further indemnify themselves by setting up foreign shells, that are able to make DMCA C&D’s that are respected, yet are beyond prosecution for fraud when their demands end up being bullshit?
As usual, the lawyers’ time is “worth” more than ten times as much as the one who was actually harmed.
Yes? Because it probably went to multiple people working many hours to prepare for the case, people who are highly trained (and likely highly indebted), who have no source of income between cases and who may well often set up deals where they don’t get paid (or not nearly as much) if their client loses? Who are in an extremely competitive job market and who took a serious risk that they would never make any money off their law debt at all?
So yes, the lawyers’ time was probably worth more than the harm of one censored article on the part of the victim. This is not terribly surprising.
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