Takedowns Start here
How to answer a DMCA notice without losing more
What §512 actually requires, what a counter-notice commits you to, the ten-to-fourteen day window, and the cases where sending one is a mistake.
12 min read 30 July 2026 Read it
The journalWhen the infrastructure stops being yours.
Five pieces for the worst week of a project: the suspension email, the takedown notice, the locked panel, the complaint you never saw, and the architecture that would have made all four survivable. Written by the people who answer the notices.
The series
One subject, five angles.
Each one is useful even if you then buy from somebody else. That is deliberate: advice that only works if you move here is an advertisement in a serif font.
- 01 Takedowns 30 Jul 2026 How to answer a DMCA notice without losing more What §512 actually requires, what a counter-notice commits you to, the ten-to-fourteen day window, and the cases where sending one is a mistake. 12 min 4 questions
- 02 Recovery 30 Jul 2026 Getting your data out of a host that locked you out What to ask for, what to try when the panel is gone, the order to pull things in, and how to make the next one survivable. 10 min 3 questions
- 03 Suspension 30 Jul 2026 Your host suspended your site. What happens now What a suspension actually is, what the host is and is not obliged to do, what you can demand in writing, and the order to do it in. 11 min 4 questions
- 04 How hosts work 30 Jul 2026 Inside the abuse desk: who reads a complaint about you How hosting abuse handling actually works, why most complaints are decided in under a minute, and what that means for how you should write to one. 10 min 3 questions
- 05 Architecture 30 Jul 2026 Building so that one takedown cannot end you The separations that decide whether a complaint costs you an afternoon or a business: registrar, DNS, backups, jurisdiction and identity. 12 min 4 questions