Volkswagen Claims Ownership of an Entire Group of Insects (eff.org)

I'm getting a feeling that the "mindless and unwarranted takedown filter" is going to become a stereotype, like the "cruel and greedy kulak" of the 21st century. We're getting flooded with stories like this from Amazon and Youtube already of small businesspeople getting screwed over, and it never, ever looks good on the company.

Well.. This is what we get for the DMCA as it has absolutely zero consequences for misuse.

Americans have always called those cars "bugs"...imagine if they took this nonsense that far.

Perhaps the only way to demonstrate the utter silliness that is DMCA takedowns is to flood the system with takedowns aimed at people who usually issue them frivously themselves and have the resources to fight them.

There needs to be some negative feedback for companies that do this.