One of my friends had his server taken down by his hosting company due to a DMCA. By the time he had filed a counter-claim a few hours later, they'd already binned his server, binned the backups, and filled the slot with a new customer. The kicker was that it was completely false; an infringement notice based on him having a text file containing the names of TV series he had watched over the year.
Just because you can file a counter notice doesn't mean that the DMCA isn't devastatingly to the owner of the website.
Wow, that sounds pretty terrible. Hopefully stackoverflow isn't hit that hard with a takedown like this. Did your friend blog/write about it at all at the time?
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The content is still gone for 14 days though.
One of my friends had his server taken down by his hosting company due to a DMCA. By the time he had filed a counter-claim a few hours later, they'd already binned his server, binned the backups, and filled the slot with a new customer. The kicker was that it was completely false; an infringement notice based on him having a text file containing the names of TV series he had watched over the year.
Just because you can file a counter notice doesn't mean that the DMCA isn't devastatingly to the owner of the website.
Which hosting company?
Wow, that sounds pretty terrible. Hopefully stackoverflow isn't hit that hard with a takedown like this. Did your friend blog/write about it at all at the time?