Bogus DMCA claims from another cowboy DMCA agent.
Perhaps one of the resident GFY Law experts, if they still exist, can offer some advice to the community on finally dealing with these cowboys.
Obvious just mass notice claims, no checking whatsoever, someone paying them for a bot to crawl and serve notices without any validations, costs legitimate webmasters time, money and emotional distress.
Such business are no more worthy than pirates in this industry, in fact since killing of file lockers it's probably their new business model.
SCUM!
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Section 512(f) of the DMCA creates liability for knowingly making false claims in a DMCA takedown notice or counter-notice. See 17 U.S.C. § 512(f). So, if you claim in a counter-notice that your content does not infringe the complaining party's copyrighted work while knowing this to be false, then the copyright owner can win damages from you, including court costs and attorneys' fees stemming from your wrongful counter-notice. Note, however, that this provision also works against a person or company sending a wrongful takedown notice. If someone claims in a takedown notice that you are infringing their copyrighted material while knowing this to be false, then you can win damages from them in a lawsuit. In recent years, the targets of wrongful takedowns have fought back and won damages and favorable settlements from individuals and companies sending bogus takedown notices.
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Name and shame the claimant/agent.