Could a person receive a DMCA takedown notice and actually be innocent?
Up until now, many people assumed that they were guilty. While others have suggested that the results might not be conclusive, we are the first to provide scientific evidence that people could be receiving DMCA notices today for allegedly illegally sharing content when in fact they were not. Given this potential for false positives, there is a pressing need for the development of more robust monitoring techniques as well as greater transparency and openness on the practices of the monitoring agencies.
