jjglvz: I was about to write something opinionated and authoritative but then I realized I don't even know what a DMCA is.
The DMCA is the
Digital
Millenium
Copyright
Act, a United States copyright law, more specifically the US complying with the WIPO* Copyright Treaty and WIPO* Performances and Phonograms Treaty.
* WIPO =
World
Intellectual
Property
Organization
A DMCA takedown notice is a legal notice provided by a copyright owner (or a legal representative thereof) to an online service provider that content they are hosting is being used without the permission of the copyright owner. Provided the notice is valid, the service provider must remove access to the infringing content in an "expeditious" manner, until such time as the person who uploaded the content contests the decision, and either the copyright owner fails to respond after a period of 14 days, or the copyright owner takes the matter before the courts and loses the case.
N.B. I am not a lawyer, the above is my best attempt at a layperson explanation, and may not be entirely correct.