> If I understand correctly, then anyone with certain authority can file a DMCA takedown notice, which results in the removal of protected content. Anyone who p

> If I understand correctly, then anyone with certain authority can file a DMCA takedown notice, which results in the removal of protected content. Anyone who posted the content and wants to challenge that notice can also do so, resulting in the restoration of the content, but not until a few days later. Hopefully resulting in the restoration of the content. There's no guaranty that a service provider will restore the content, and the bar to getting a counter filed is relatively high (to an individual with no legal resources, etc). The problem is that service providers are liable to get bent over if they don't respond to valid DMCA notices, so they're likely to overreact when they get invalid ones as well. If they remove something for improper reasons, though, there's no law backing the user up.