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DMCA defense, abuse detection, counter-notice drafting, EU DSA, TAKE IT DOWN, and what's actually inside the public takedown record.
A practical, evidence-based guide to detecting fraudulent DMCA notices. The eight patterns we look for, the tools that surface them, and what to do once you're sure a takedown is bogus.
What §512(g)(3) actually requires, the consequences nobody tells you about (federal jurisdiction consent, identity disclosure), and a working template you can edit. Written for site operators, not lawyers.
67 million notices. 10 billion URLs. Two hundred thousand new entries every week. Lumen is the largest public record of internet takedown notices ever assembled — and most people don't know it exists. Here's how it works.
What Article 16 of the Digital Services Act actually requires, what the €120M X fine taught us, and how to ship a compliant notice-and-action workflow without a six-figure consulting bill.
If you got a demand letter for $1,000–$26,000 over a stock photo on your website, here's the defense playbook. What's negotiable, what's not, and the §512(f) angle most lawyers miss.
The largest single takedown dataset ever published runs at over 100 million URL requests per week. What's in the data, who is filing, and why the dataset froze for five months in 2025.
