On: Should Bogus Copyright Takedown Senders Be Punishe...

[icebraining]

How can he be wrong? He can't recognize his own music?

The problem are automated systems; the solution is just not to use one.

[sukuriant → icebraining]

Using a 10 second sequence that happens to be the same across multiple songs. Not knowing the exact details of the law, and thinking that reproductions of the song are also owned by him?

[icebraining → sukuriant]

Having to listen to the full song (or, alternatively, not going after people who are just distributing ten second excerpts) and having to know the law before beating people with it don't seem unreasonable demands to me.

[sukuriant → icebraining]

Is 10 seconds of the song considered fair use by big media?

[icebraining → sukuriant]

I'm pretty sure big media considers fair use an obscene concept, but I don't really see how is that relevant, since I didn't say ten seconds of a song should become fair use.

[sukuriant → icebraining]

I was extending an assumption based off:

"not going after people who are just distributing ten second excerpts"

[icebraining → sukuriant]

You are forgetting to account for context.

I was saying that they couldn't go if they can't afford to lose ten grand if they're wrong about the song, not that it'd be illegal to do so.