> First, Congress should update the safe harbor rules of the copyright act to achieve the balance that was intended... That means strong, well-defined consequences for repeat offenders, easing the process for filing notices and ensuring that services are using the best technology to take pirated material off their sites and keep it off.

Is it really too difficult to file a DMCA claim? Especially since most content holders seem to use automated, mass report systems these days.

Also, I bet YouTube could get behind the "best technology" requirement, since it would likely make it impossible to make a user-uploaded-video site unless you already have the technology resources and content databases of someone like Google...