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Your issue is with copyright in general, not the DMCA process in particular, I assume?

You kinda come off as more offended by her trying to get out of a shitty situation as best as possible than by the abuse she's receiving in the first place.




I am not offended at all by her trying to get out of the shitty situation, and she has my sympathies for the situation she found herself in, however after seeing a fair few instances of the DMCA being used in the past for censorship as opposed to "protecting copyright" (and yes i realise she owns the copyright on the photo, so technically it can be considered protecting copyright) where it has turned into a streisand effect. including people replicating the hosting of the image/video/media in thousands of places to rebel against the censorship of the internet, based on a law from a single country




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