That's what happens when there are no consequences for bad actors. Is anyone surprised? A legit copyright claim can take down a copyright violator and "restore" the copyright holder's control of the copyright just as easily as a bad actor can take down a YouTube publisher with lies based on the DMCA. The law equally protects both actors. Greed makes lawmakers look stupid when in fact they are just vile when creating their laws. Then Google comes in, looks at the same problem, and concludes that the law is enough because their content producers are not customers (they are the product, you guessed it) and therefore should be exploited rather than protected. Abusers of this law will simply not be punished. Undoubtedly this sentiment is shared across a variety of major platforms whose only incentive is to pretend like the systems they set up are effective at enforcing a law that's simply unenforceable. And so the charade continues with people's livelihood and creative works as the cannon fodder in this stupid war of greed. Someone should get together and start filing such claims against content the big media corps provide. I guarantee you Google fixes this problem in hours.