30% of DMCA takedown notices improper
The Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) was supposed to protect especially the entertainment industry from the changes in the world around it. But hastily crafted legislation has a tendency to turn ugly:
While the supporters of the DMCA have claimed that abuse happens only occasionally, according to a study done at the universities of Berkeley and South Carolina, USA, , 30% of the takedown notices enabled by this piece of legislation are improper and possibly illegal.