The article reads as if this wasn't the case. Do you have a source that mentions this? Everything I can find reads exactly the same as DMCA, where there's no 'central authority' to listen to, but you're just expected to treat each request as if it was part of a lawsuit.

This is especially insane, since this was undoubtably the action of an agent at Google, and we have no idea how many claims Google does properly handle. If each wrong handling is a 600k fine, you will quickly see every single request approved.