Pearson takes down 1.5 million teacher/student blogs with a single DMCA notice
The headline seems misleading.  Pearson seems to have executed a valid DMCA claim on a single dis-used blog from 2007.  Maybe a little silly, but within their rights, and certainly not egregious.<p>And then <i></i>ServerBeach<i></i> decided to pull the plug on an entire rack of servers with no real notice, no real justification, and <i>AFTER</i> the customer had removed the content.  Unless ServerBeach has a really amazing explanation (and frankly I can't imagine what that might be) this is simply horrifying.<p>If ServerBeach will pull the plug on a customer paying $7k/month without warning and with essentially no justification, imagine what they'd do to someone smaller?<p>My takeaway from this:  DMCA still not a serious problem.  Pearson no more assholeish than any other publisher.  ServerBeach a bunch of dangerous loons who need to be kept away from your servers.