Originally Posted by Nautilus

When you actually run your website and only publish materials that are either your's or properly licensed, false and erroneuos DMCAs are not the problem in the least bit. You simply file counter DMCA, problem solved.

I remember we once sent a bunch of links to hotfile and one of them was a pdf file with an instruction to a vacuum cleaner - I honestly have no idea how it got there (most likely it was harvested from filestube by mistake, but I'm not sure), but when having to work with an absurd amount of infringing links (we usually send 30-50K infringing links with DMCAs to piracy sites every week), an occasional false positive is bound to slip through every now and then.

But so what, the guy who uploaded it simply filed counter DMCA where he stated his name and contact information and forwarded it to hotfile, hotfile sent it to us. I e-mailed this guy my apologies (which he accepted), and e-mailed hotfile authorization to reinstate the link, which they did. Problem solved.

It's only real pirates who "suffer" from false and erroneous DMCAs, because they cannot file counter DMCAs with their real contact information - even when they know materials they stole is from some other copyright holder, not the one they're getting DMCAs from, they still cannot file counter DMCAs because they're afraid to reveal their identities. For legit guys there's no such problem as false DMCAs, it is simply non existant.