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Re:NRA complaint takes down Surge's 38,000 websites by hga on Thursday June 30, 2016 @01:11PM (#12010028)
Looking at the copies stored on the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ShareTheSafety.org they don't immediately look false, although they don't copy the NRA's current website graphic design very well.

Fair use is not an automatic thing, I'm not so confident this web site (no opinion on the video) would be protected by it, especially since, as I note elsewhere in this sub-thread, such a project is not entirely beyond the realm of possibility.

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Re:NRA complaint takes down Surge's 38,000 websites by danudey on Thursday June 30, 2016 @01:19PM (#12010094)
Did the NRA have a court order to take down the website? If not, then their takedown notice was just a letter saying 'please take this company offline because we believe it is infringing', which isn't enough.
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Re:NRA complaint takes down Surge's 38,000 websites by mikeash on Thursday June 30, 2016 @01:29PM (#12010180)
It's enough if the target thinks it's enough, which in this case they apparently did.

There's nothing saying you have to obey a random cease-and-desist letter, but there's also nothing saying you can't obey it. If DO prefers to take action for letters like these, that's their right. And if they give their customer warning and a way to respond, I can't even say it would make me uncomfortable to be their customer.

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Re:NRA complaint takes down Surge's 38,000 websites by sintaxi on Thursday June 30, 2016 @03:14PM (#12010935)
No cease-and-desist was sent to Digital Ocean or Surge but there was one sent to CloudFlare. Digital Ocean acted on their own behalf.
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Re:NRA complaint takes down Surge's 38,000 websites by sintaxi on Thursday June 30, 2016 @03:11PM (#12010924)
There was no court order, no.
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