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Originally Posted by uniquemkt
Honestly $50 seems like a reasonable amount for taking a foreign-law request that doesn't apply to you and converting it to a domestic-law request, and authenticating said request to be sure that the requester is legally able to make that request. All you people getting butthurt are overlooking the simple fact that a DMCA request sent to any country other than the USA is the same as a postcard from Hawaii for any legal purposes. Offering to accept that totally invalid request for a small fee, or of course allowing the requester to use the appropriate process for the country in question without a fee, that seems pretty damn reasonable. This has nothing to do with harboring pirates or whatever other bullshit that people are trying to turn it into.
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$50 is an outrage considering sometimes you can send 100s of DMCAs to the same host for the same site, only to often have them rename the files and put them right back up later.
The problem is, there is no punishment for the infringing party. Why doesn't the host charge THEM $50 for every legit DMCA they have to remove? After all, it is their site. They stole it. They fucked up. They are the reason any of this is happening in the first place. Punish the site owner, not the content owner. Hosts make you pay for bandwidth overage, so why not have to pay for legit DMCAs sent to your site?
IMHO any company charging anything to the content owner for removing content is involved in piracy themselves, and probably on a fairly deep level. Otherwise they would pass the burden to the site owner / client.