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Originally Posted by TeaForOne
I don't know. Youtube is still there. They must recieve hundreds of DMCA notices a day. Same goes for the porn tubes. Section 230 protects the sites and the hosts, and that's that. Even worse if they are in a non-DMCA country.
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Youtube is one of the examples where those gazillions of DMCAs actually achieved a considerable effect. They were getting increasingly nervous from getting too many take down notices and from lawsuits too, and despite winning their viacom lawsuit they put on the break piracy wise because they knew they couldn't go on like this any longer. If they wouldn't do something about piracy themselves, the day will come when they'll get their ass handed to them in court and they'll have to pay astronomical multi-billion damages.
Now they have digital fingerprinting system that pretty much stops piracy cold - if you're a copyright holder and you care to keep your stuff off youtube, you can use it (it's free) and pirates wil not be able to upload your stuff anymore. Also one DMCA is enough to have content auto-fingerprinted so uploaders cannot pull that trick you're complaing about in your OP, i.e. wait until the dust settles and reload. DFP wouldn't let this new upload through.
They also ban repeat infringers, and they do it for real. Which also helps alot to keep piracy numbers down. Yes there's still alot of piracy going on at youtube, but it is possible only when copyright holders either encourage it (for whatever reason) or do not care. If you want your stuff off youtube, you can easily do that.
BTW, adult tubes also started to implement DFP one by one. I was especially surprised by xvideos's DFP program as it is pretty similar to youtube's (it is free and you can fingerprint unlimited amount of videos) and it is working. They'd also ban repeat infringer upon your request.
They didn't do that because of huge respect to copyright laws. They did it because they came under pressure and decided to take proactive steps, to sacrifice some now to avoid loosing everything in the future.
Constant pressure is the key when dealing with piracy. Keep sending DMCAs relentlessly no matter what.