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Well, a person cult is distracting from the actual issue too.

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YouTube content creators are dealing with the same bullshit to a degree. Especially on the music side. DCMA and copyright strikes are being weaponized to shut content down someone doesn’t like, not because there’s actually infringement going on. You see that happening now too with comic/comedy commentator channels, e.g. the whole Brendan Schaub bit.

There’s a lawyer I follow on YT who speaks about this a lot.

https://youtube.com/@topmusicattorney

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But the disturbing thread running through all these requests is how easy it’s become for copyright trolls to leverage the DMCA to intimidate providers

I remember this issue being pointed out by the more vocal critics of the dmca when the bill was working its way through Congress. They warned that “remove first, ask questions later” would be abused by corporations in this exact manner with effectively no recourse for people who can’t afford a lawyer for every single time there victimized by a wrongful takedown request.

And here we are, decades later, and it’s been a problem this whole time.

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Ted Cruz and Amy Klobachar are pushing a bill that doesn’t even have that recourse.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/19/take-it-down-act-has-best-of-intentions-worst-of-mechanisms/

It’s got to be intentional, these people are lawyers and know exactly how the law works.

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That was always the intention of the law.

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They say haves and have nots, but it’s more haves and I fucking dare you to try to have

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Copyright and patent laws need to die.

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Send the Italian plumbers boys

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I hope the next adjuster wears a mario hat in the act, I truly do.

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Here’s to hoping he has a twin brother, who is equally as cool.

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Halloween '25 gonna be huge for the luigi twins and bustin CEO blocks

furries can be yoshi or somethin idk there’s family fun

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And just when it seems Luigi is out of the news here comes the Streisand Effect with a steel chair!

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Wait a minute I gotta make this better lol

Edit: better, and only uses public domain images.

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