Yeah, but really, it didn't help much when we didn't have the form (and people had to write it in).
If the "Under penalty of perjury" thing doesn't dissuade someone filing a false report, making the report method a little harder almost certainly wouldn't.
On the other hand, before the current system went in, we spent *way* more time trying to explain to people what we needed to do anything about it, and dealing with a lot of people outraged by the fact we were trying to follow the law.
(as a side note: the FAQ re: copyright stuff hasn't changed much - I think just the relevant changes about how to actually file the report - since we put in the new abuse report forms, which is why I can tell that the forms have actually lightened our workload in this area a bit.)
Faxing and uploading are also much more complicated - we still can't really verify it anyway (so, really, if someone wants to lie, what's the point) and the support and abuse form systems and email addresses don't allow attachments. And the law says we don't need to verify identity or ownership of copyright - we're not the people who do that, that's why the perjury statement is there - simply make sure the required information is there, and that there's a moderately believable evidence for the original version. (prior creation date, etc.)
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Date: 2004-07-14 05:23 pm (UTC)If the "Under penalty of perjury" thing doesn't dissuade someone filing a false report, making the report method a little harder almost certainly wouldn't.
On the other hand, before the current system went in, we spent *way* more time trying to explain to people what we needed to do anything about it, and dealing with a lot of people outraged by the fact we were trying to follow the law.
(as a side note: the FAQ re: copyright stuff hasn't changed much - I think just the relevant changes about how to actually file the report - since we put in the new abuse report forms, which is why I can tell that the forms have actually lightened our workload in this area a bit.)
Faxing and uploading are also much more complicated - we still can't really verify it anyway (so, really, if someone wants to lie, what's the point) and the support and abuse form systems and email addresses don't allow attachments. And the law says we don't need to verify identity or ownership of copyright - we're not the people who do that, that's why the perjury statement is there - simply make sure the required information is there, and that there's a moderately believable evidence for the original version. (prior creation date, etc.)