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Originally Posted by GrouchyAdmin
That's if the DMCA actually has any merit or meat - if the owner states specifically that this is bullshit and agrees to not hold the ISP liable, the ISP will generally be happy with forwarding the request onto their legal department (read: secretary) to investigate the viability of the claim.
That this provider turned them off without so much as even following up - I want them exposed. I want to ensure I never do business with them.
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whoa, sorry, I forgot about even posting this
It was Dreamhost.
He was lucky, he caught us at the tail end of moving to Webair, we were just tweaking scripts etc before changing the DNS, because we were already thoroughly sick of Dreamhost's incompetence.
But yes, they took down the site immediately when they received his DMCA. I emailed them repeatedly, saying that it was bullshit and that I had proof that we own the copyright to each and every item on the entire domain. The only reply I received was "file a DMCA counter-notification, and if he doesn't take you to court in 14 days we'll put the site online again"
Needless to say we didn't wait around for that shit and just completed the move to Webair. Needless to say as well, he didn't follow up on our counter-notification.
He hasn't stopped. Not long afterwards he got ICANN to shut down our DNS and we were offline again for two days while we got that shit sorted out. He's been sending us threatening emails through our contact form.
Here's the latest:
From: <
[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Subject: stupidmotherfucker
To:
[email protected]
Name:
Email:
[email protected]
Message:
remove this page or I shut you down again
http://bonecash.com/blog/?p=67
Seems like he's getting nervous now, as we know who he is and where he lives.
Fuck him, we aren't taking shit down. We refused to be blackmailed by a scammer.
If he wants to act like an asshole, he should learn to live with the consequences.