The big corporations won’t tolerate it. They will be in congress faster than DARPA’s hypersonic weapon. Quickest way to get this stupid law changed.

ETA: I think the thinkgeek.com takedown will turn out to be for the ‘rock paper scisors lizard spock’ desktop mug page that contains the following description: “The symbols for Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock in a circle (with arrows for reference on what beats what) on a 16 oz coffee mug.”

These elected morons in Congress welcomed organizations to LIE on DMCA take-down notice when there is no lawful requirement that the submitted details be valid meaning you can attack your friends, family, business rivals and more. The only lawful requirement is that you sign this “sheet of lies” honesty which means not to try of fake being someone else.

Then they totally omitted stating a punishment for DMCA abuse meaning such “victims” can only appeal to the Justice system for compensation. Damages though seem a much better fit for commercial businesses than home users (like Stephanie Lenz) who has so far managed to win back only her legal fee. Wait take abuser to Court, all their lies exposed, you win, but you only win back the money you spent taking them to Court and NOTHING MORE.

Congress has known about this problem for years but they do nothing to fix it because no one pays them to fix it. All the time we see DMCA abuse getting more extreme and common as services realise they can lie all they want… and no one can stop them.

The dmca zero cost notices are also open to abuse. It is something I have suspected where legitimate sources of files are listed for takedown. A legit download site could easily attempt to take down a competitors listings . Hoping a search engine does not have the resources to check links while the site trying to noble it’s competitors hides behind a 3rd party agency that might be a non existent front.
Lets face it, on receipt of a dmca takedown, a site only has the word the notice issuer holds the copyright in the work, no checks are made.