This is an interesting lawsuit as it is a *company* seeking damages due to DMCA abuse by a third party, and my understanding is that this is very widespread (no source sorry). Is anyone aware of any studies done on the total cost¹ (vs benefit¹) of the DMCA due to malicious actors?

¹ defining what is a cost vs benefit (and how much) is probably the hardest part, maybe after acquiring the necessary data.