[wisty]

IANAL but if you send a DMCA notice and they ignore it, they are (partly) liable. That's the point of DMCA.

File in a small claims court (or notify of your intent to do so) and see how long it takes to get a response ...

I wonder if you could probably even suggest a fee for damages, wasted time, etc due to their slow response and hope it's cheaper than them getting a lawyer to assess it ...

You would need to be the owner, and would know where to file though. If it's not your content, and you're "helping a friend" (but not actually legally representing them) then my guess is they haven't received a valid DMCA.

[dangus]

Not small claims court, big boy court. Copyright infringement fines are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars per incident as in per download.

OP needs to get a real lawyer and stop putzing around emailing a machine.

If you want a human at Google you need to send letters from a law firm.

[Animats]

> Not small claims court, big boy court.

Right, it's federal, not state law.

Also, register the copyright, assuming that's still working under the current administration. (Trump is trying to fire the head of the Copyright Office, which is part of the Library of Congress and doesn't report to Trump.)

[oefrha]

I was legally representing them. I had their photo ID and a signed legal authorization letter and screencasts of their private creator portal showing infringed works and dossier of side-of-side comparison of infringing URLs and original URLs with publishing timestamps highlighted. All the submitted documents were signed. It hardly gets more concrete than that.

[wisty]

Other replies say it isn't small claims but a federal case, with large potential damages.

Either way, ignoring dcma is asking to be sued. And you can't just block or ignore a court summons.