It seems like the issue is laziness on the part of content providers who don't bother to review the situation, and copyright holders who apparently can't be arsed to review legal threats before sending them out. It seems to me that all we're doing here is establishing that lawyerbots are a bad idea, and that plenty of people on both sides of the equation don't really understand what "copyright infringement" actually _is_.

Not, though, that de facto is NOT de jure. "Everyone else is doing it" is not a justification for it being done at all; neither is "it's really easy to do and really hard to stop".

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