canadamus_prime said:
If I'm not mistaken a lot of this and similar incidents have to do with the fact that many of these companies outsource their copyright protection whatevers to a 3rd party, and even then it's largely handled by automated bots. Of course both of those are incredibly stupid things to do.
Yes and as a youtuber I've dealt with such companies. They are the most impressively vile and threatening groups I've ever run into. They put in a claim and basically played the "well sue you and take everything card." So I called them on it in the counter claim, stated how the law was on my side, stated the statistics such as compensation for such a false claim, if they took it further. Then stated how I'd take it to the EU courts. It's amazing how apologetic they were after I pointed out they were acting illegally.
Fun creators are mad to do this.
It will cost them court fees.
If they lose it's a minimum $5,000 fine to compensate the creator per incident of DMCA abuse. With optional 10% loss of earning compensation to the victim.
On top of that they then also have to pay the victim for their full loss of earnings. 2 videos at 200,000+ views on youtube. That could easily be another $10,000 in loss of revenue.
Add to that slander and deformation of character as seen via twitter.
I'd say this is looking like a $100,000 in costs already.[/quote]
Still the point I was trying to make was that the actuall companies that hold the copyrights are usually not to blame in these cases and the only stupid thing they've done is hire these 3rd party companies; which admittedly is pretty stupid.
