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Re:Highly Available Block Storage by buckhx on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @02:40PM (#12088602)
The founder of surge.sh commented on this on HN and it directly conflicts with Digital Ocean's statement

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12010521

"""

11:02am - "you need to remove the content or fill out a counter claim"

12:47pm - "we were wrong, no counter claim can be filed and you now have 39minutes to remove the content or we are disabling the network"

"""

Then in the comments:

"""

5 days ago we got forwarded a forward of a takedown request that was sent to CloudFlare from a representative of the trademark holder. We responded to that forward within 22 minutes of first receiving it and have been in communication with Digital Ocean ever since right up until about 1.5h prior to be shut down.

"""

Believe who you will.

Edit: added 2nd quote from comments

Re:Highly Available Block Storage by lorenzhs on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @04:12PM (#12089277)
> Believe who you will.

As evident in the comments beneath your link, they had been in contact with DO for ~5 days at that point. Your quote leaves out important information and is misleading at best