Make it illegal
The law should protect both sides - if false takedowns are being submitted, they should be fined and the proceeds go to the target.
The vigilant folk at TorrentFreak think they've found something odd: among the hundreds of thousands of sites Microsoft has recently asked Google not to index are requests to remove references to sites that in no way infringe Microsoft's rights but instead mention the the free OpenOffice suite. TorrentFreak's report on the …
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Perhaps they should sort their own search engine out before interfering with others.
Look at the blocklist itself. The OpenOffice torrents are filled with artifacts that somewhat suggest what's being offered is identifying itself with Microsoft's offering rather than Apache's (Open Office 2010 anyone?). It is more than feasable to suggest that this was a bot error
"Sue for what? Damages? And who would have grounds to sue?
These were third-party torrents for a freely redistributable open-source software.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to see Microsoft slapped silly, but it's not going to happen."
The hoster of the torrent, the person who put up the torrent, *and* the copyright holder all have a chance under DMCA to invoke the penalty clause for perjury in DMCA requests, which these are. I've NEVER heard of it being invoked, but I guarantee if any of my content was falsely DMCA'd, I'd invoke the penalty clause.