I largely agree with you because I'm tending towards the idea that he just got randomly picked by his DMCA bot. However, I'm also very cynical and you're right, once you get past a certain point I'm a bit foggy about how the legal system works. But wouldn't it be the case that whichever side loses the case will push to have it escalated to the next level of the legal system? And the higher up you go, the more politics DO factor into the game? If it gets to the Supreme Court, 7 of the 9 judges are the same ones who voted FOR copyright extension in Eldridge vs. Ashcroft. Would they have changed their minds?