Yes it is. DMCAs require legal counter-notification or I by default commit infringement. See 17 U.S. Code § 512(g)(2)(B). This is why the DMCA is so strong. If someone ignores a DMCA, they owe you money. If the service provider ignores your DMCA, they owe you money. If they want to counter, they have to dox themselves. (§§ (g)(3)) That's why a lolcow can DMCA a YouTube video and get it down. Either the creator responds with a legal address, or they ignore it and Google has to take liability or remove it.
Non-Americans. With Anisa, a Greek man operating a British company representing a Canadian woman, without any degree certification or license required, is filing urgent legal documents I _have_ to reply to and which Google _has_ to deal with.
In theory the party filing the DMCA notice has to prove infringement. However, that only happens if they actually try to sue. In practice, it rarely gets that far, because the service provider that receives the DMCA takedown notice usually just rolls over and takes down the allegedly infringing material.
Which I think should be a clause in the law. If you decide to remove content over a DMCA without letting the service flow down to the user, you should be accepting liabiliity for other DMCAs as well.
I tend to agree with you, but you end up in the weeds. Ostensibly, they're not removing content over a DMCA, they're removing it because it violates their Terms of Service, which say that you can't violate copyright (and they get to be the sole arbitrators of deciding whether you did). Then you run into the problem of trying to legally force a company to provide a service to someone when they've arbitrarily decided that they don't want to... it's really tough for the government to punish them for not doing that unless their underlying reason for denying service is the user's legally protected class (i.e. a snowflake).
This is the one thing Canada has over america in terms of "free speech". For piracy, it comes down to if the person who is pirating it is making money, and DMCA has 0 control here. I've seen some sites even put that in their legal statement as a "fuck you" to some companies.
Too bad you can go to prison for calling a feminist a bitch online.
Where did that happen? Cause even the faggot bill c-16 laws say I have to respect their mental illness is a case by case system depending in the jurisdiction. I live in alberta, a "conservative" province that doesn't give much if a shit about all that.
Ontario, so cuck central.
Oh, yeah fuck Ontario. Fucking morons there saying if a parent doesn't encourage their kids gender faggotry they should be arrested. Sad part is I hate albertas current party, but at least they aren't bringing that shit here...for now.
It's the reason I respect Josh. You give him orders and he retorts with "lol I do whatever the fuck I want." Too many people these days are afraid to just tell people to fuck themselves, not our Errverlord though.
Too bad all of Naughty Dog's good writers left after what? Jak And Daxter or Uncharded?, so even if TLOU2 turns out to be a good game, The story will make the game look infinitely worse, especially with un-needed politics.
Tbf God of War 4 is worse than God of War 3.