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0 pointszaarn7y ago0 comments

>It remains disruptive, unsettling and expensive, not to mention unnecessary

Nobody will do this, no sane legal department signs this off or approves of such behavior. Doing otherwise is a great way to incinerate their legal licenses. There are fines for behavior like that.

The best outcome for the suing party of such a scenario is a 5 minute court room appearance in which the judge slaps you with a restraining order and closes the case.

This has literally never been an escalating problem in european courtrooms to my experience because judges don't like that behavior and laws exist to prevent it.

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smsm427y ago

> There are fines for behavior like that.

In theory, there are. In practice, the abuse of both copyright and offensive content notifications is rampant and almost never punished. You have to get to real hardcore crime on massive scale before judicial system starts noticing, and even then it can take years and a lot of effort to get it to do anything. In most cases, such abuse is completely unpunished or gets slap on the wrist.

zaarnOP7y ago

Because the only system that sites implement is the DMCA, which is largely compatible with Notice&Takedown in the EU but N&T has much softer requirements and Art13 now requires human review and a founded response from the copyright holder.

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