The Electronic Frontier Foundation has lost a Supreme Court bid to lower the standard for proving that the removal of content from YouTube and other platforms was unreasonable.

The Supreme Court led stand Monday a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decision that said issuers of takedown notices aren’t liable under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act unless they actually knew that the material did not infringe their copyright, or were willfully blind to that knowledge.

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