Introduced in 1998, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was designed to solve a specific problem: protecting creators from digital piracy while granting online platforms a “safe harbor” from liability. Under Section 512, search engines and host providers avoid expensive lawsuits as long as they act swiftly to remove content when a copyright holder flags an infringement. That “act swiftly” requirement creates an unintended vulnerability. Because major platforms rely on automated processing to handle millions of removal requests every month, bad actors can trigger automatic deindexing without human review. What was designed as a shield…
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