Possibly. Though based on having friends who had DMCA used against them and fought it, a counter-notice immediately put the brakes on large companies. The reas

Possibly. Though based on having friends who had DMCA used against them and fought it, a counter-notice immediately put the brakes on large companies. The reason for that is simple: DMCA takedowns in large companies are handled by someone who at best is a year out of law school who processes hundreds of them per day. 99.99% of those go unchallenged because no one knows about the process. As soon as the counter-notice is served this person/entity indicates that they aren't the 99.99%, at which point someone actually starts looking at their play book. It will be another round of notice/counter notice game before someone that bills $400/h looks at the merit of a company's assertion. In the larger companies the cooler hands tend to prevail in non-obvious cases.