Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement

Isn't the DMCA already supposed to cover this type of situation? I can't tell from this article what was actually going on, unfortunately.

Indeed they could've structured the whole project to give them DMCA protection but they chose not to. They truly thought copyright didn't apply. Then doubled down when pressed, just like the book lawsuit.

They had a number of ways to avoid this problem entirely and the fact that they didn't yet again brings Brewster's judgement into question. He's a sweet guy but clearly not an operations or business guy. He's at retirement age and has an opportunity to do the right thing. Hopefully clearing these lawsuits will open up some options.

They have exceptions to several categories of IP https://archive.org/about/dmca.php

Also, they have a policy already https://help.archive.org/help/rights/

Unless you are claiming that they don't follow it, and this case, nor the one before, rights holders included in their cases that they tried to report them via those.