This is a fun problem.<p>Issuing takedowns for things you don't control is wrong, and it's easy to verify that it costs the host time and money to resolve their mistakes. Suing material, basically.<p>Meanwhile, having penalties for issuing faulty takedowns means it's impractical for owners to police things fast enough - the uploaders can always out-pace them. So it's essentially the same situation, in reverse.<p>I side with the hosts on this, especially as issuing a takedown seems equivalent to a company claiming ownership of something that's definitively not theirs - a bit of a no-no, I hear. And since issuing the takedowns is easily poorly-automated, but not actually performing the takedowns or dealing with unhappy paying customers, it seems (completely) unfairly weighted against hosts unless they're explicitly protected.<p>But really, there's <i>absolutely</i> no way to make everyone happy in this, unless illegal sharing goes away entirely on its own. Hosts can't catch everything, owners can't watch everything, and removing user-uploaded content sites would massively cripple the internet.