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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
My point still is still the same and still valid though. If you wanted to throw out DMCA completely so you could sue the bastards violating your copyrights, you'd have to wait 6-18 months to have your content taken down, AND if the defendant somehow won the case, you'd have to remunerate them for attorney fees and other expenses.
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18 months so fucking what? With DMCA we'll have to wait FOREVER until our content is removed - although they have to comply with your TDR the next day your clip will be there again.
If you have a solid ground for a lawsuit it is worth waiting, maybe your compensation for damages will be higher than what your site's going to make in it's entire lifetime. But even if it's not doesn't matter - 99,9999% of those motherfuckers who steal nowadays all day long would not do that knowing there's a good chance they'll get sued and they have NOTHING to show in court. Now with the damnable DMCA around all they have to do is to show their upload button to a judge and that's it, rock solid proof they're clean.
I'll go back into the pre-DMCA era any day of the week. It isn't a big deal to sue,
the big deal is when your content is all around and you cannot even sue, only to send piles of worthless DMCA notices which do nothing in the grand scheme of things - the next day your content will be all over the place again.