Can you explain why you would record an infringement before the three day window for counter notices has expired? You have no section for decrementing/annulling infringements or re-enabling accounts, so if you follow this process, I can disable your users' accounts simply by filing two bad-faith DMCA notices.

Proposed improvement: mark the actions that are legally required. I've waded through enough technically-ambiguous regulatory language to know that having a clear requirement/recommendation distinction can be pretty helpful.

Other than that, seems like a decent guide (with the non-legal advice caveats). Good job, author.

I have created an updated version to incorporate comments.

Most comments were about when to decrement the infringement counter. Some went to important unknowns like the threshold of proof before incrementing the infringement counter.

To facilitate ongoing work, I have created a Github version of the project:

https://github.com/lucasgonze/hackersdmcaguide

The flowchart doesn't have a path for if you get a notice that the agent has actually followed suit - I'll take that as a commentary on the process as it's so incredibly rare.

This is a pretty good guide generally.

I am a bit skiddish about the counter filing process. What is "filing suit" in this context? That process isn't clear to me.

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