http://www.theregister.com/2006/11/04/eff_fights_bogus_dmca_case/ "We had in good faith published a photograph supplied to us by the subject of an otherwise uncontroversial article. A few days later, one very annoyed photographer emailed us claiming copyright for the picture and demanded its removal, or a fee. But we were not quick enough for him. In the meantime, he fired off a DMCA takedown notice to our webhost in the US. The company in turn fired off a letter telling us to remove the allegedly infringing content and set us a deadline of *a few hours* to confirm in writing that we had done so. Otherwise it would "suspend network access to the server hosting the website". ...A suspension would have affected all our servers - including those hosted in the UK, as well as the US. So our entire site would have been closed for business, all because of one photograph - admittedly not ours to republish. This did not strike us an entirely proportionate response, and it brought home to us how easy it is to use the DMCA to ambush websites housed in the US or hosted overseas .." k
