One could argue that the DMCA was largely written by bad actors. Everything else flows downhill from there.
The “western” world lost a once-in-a-thousand-years chance to change how copyright works at a fundamental level, when the internet started getting traction. We’re now forever beholden to the whims of parasitical “industries”.
Is this where we must point out that the entire ContentID system was designed to protect bad actors, because it was written by them?