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Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA), a portion of the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act known as DMCA 512 or the DMCA takedown
provisions, is a 1998 United States law that provided a safe
harbor to online service providers (OSPs, including ISPs) that
promptly take down content if someone alleges it infringes their
copyrights. Most are generally supportive of the act, although
some believe it has some problematic portions and is overused.
The act added section 512 to the Copyright law in Title 17 of
the United States Code (Public Law No. 105-304, 112 Stat. 2860,
2877).  This provision of United States copyright law is best
known for allowing copyright holders to ask that any online
service provider (OSP, including ISPs) remove access to
copyright infringing material if th