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this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2024
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why is the DMCA the one fucking law that actually gets enforced at a high rate when there are literally billions of things more important that we could spend money on
Because violating the DMCA is copyright infringement, and § 501 (b) of the Copyright Act gives copyright holders a private right of action to file a civil lawsuit to enforce it. Copyright holders tend to be motivated in a way that the State very often isn't.
Because the corporations that benefit from this law can afford to buy lots of politicians.
It's civil lawsuits by corporations, not state prosecution
it's not generally law enforcement enforcing it, it's the copyright holders threatening civil action against things like internet service providers, who in turn will cut off your internet or some such. they have a lot of money, so they get law enforcement to do their bidding when they want, but the majority of DMCA action is civil action. this is, my very uneducated opinion looking from the outside
Because it's simple. The company that owns the content does a DMCA claim and they either remove it or get sued. Removing it is simple and largely automated.