Microsoft is yet another big company that doesn't fancy queuing up at 9 o'clock outside the law courts every Monday morning to fight end of the week take-down 'requests' and millions of dollars of lost business every weekend! Apple, Microsoft, Adobe and many others would of course issue take-downs against their competitors/opponents at the last minute of every working week!
No amount of re-working will get around this problem, unless very specific evidence has to be legally considered and judged upon first before any take down is acted on, ie almost as at present! And if a site was taken down, and an appeal was successful, the company or person issuing the take down might find very heavy damages indeed against them! So in effect, no-one in their right mind would issue a take down unless they were 100% sure that it wouldn't go against them and initially land them with costs, or on appeal. Seeing as most judgements are subjective, i.e. a matter of 'learned' opinion, not many would take that risk!
Initial take-downs without proven evidence though as implied by SOPA would on the other hand result in thousands or tens of thousands of take-down requests each week, with no initial legal costs. Hence SOPA is totally dead!
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