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Hacking Copyright: Holding Cops Accountable For Abusing Youtube’S Copyright Filter System, Tyler Bloom
Hacking Copyright: Holding Cops Accountable For Abusing Youtube’S Copyright Filter System, Tyler Bloom
Journal of Law and Policy
This Note both explores the mechanisms and incentive structures that make “copyright hacking” possible and explains the legal system’s failure to provide recourse for victims of successful “copyright hacks” by police officers. Because the DMCA has failed to keep pace with the internet’s exponential growth, OSPs, such as YouTube, have developed filtering systems that can be exploited to “copyright hack” users and ultimately suppress their speech. A victim of “copyright hacking” by a police officer currently has no recourse; the doctrine of qualified immunity functionally precludes them from suing for violating their First Amendment rights. This Note proposes two possible …