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AFAIK, many authors and publishers sent DMCA notices and other threatening letters to the company hosting LendInk's website. Out of fear of litigation, the host

AFAIK, many authors and publishers sent DMCA notices and other threatening letters to the company hosting LendInk's website. Out of fear of litigation, the hosting company shut down LendInk.

tedunangst 14y ago
I guess I don't understand why somebody would post "Not due to DMCA complaints" on their website if they took it down because of DMCA complaints.
- kodablah 14y ago
  Firstly, I see "This account has been suspended. Either the domain has been overused, or the reseller ran out of resources." on http://lendink.com http://lendink.com. Secondly, even if it did say that, it could somewhat be construed as true. The DMCA process wasn't necessarily followed since I don't think the hosting company gave the website owner the opportunity to refute them. Again, if I remember correctly, the website owner does not blame the host and did not see it as a fight worth fighting since there was little (or no) revenue involved. Edit: the last paragraph may be incorrect; the hosting company may have given him an out. Regardless, he decided it was not worth the effort.
  - icebraining 14y ago
    I see the same as tedunangst: "Currently offline / Not due to DMCA complaints."
  - camiller 14y ago
    Yeah, when he first took over LendInk he was an Amazon affiliate. So if a user ended up buying a book that they had borrowed but didn't finish he made a little coin. Once Amazon severed it's affiliate links in California he lost that. Even at it's peak he still didn't make that much money.
  - tedunangst 14y ago
    You get a different message at http://www.lendink.com/ http://www.lendink.com/
- camiller 14y ago
  Somewhere else I read that they were not formal DMCA requests, more like his ISP got flooded with a lot of informal "fix this or we'll sue" notices. The ISP told the guy he could get his site back if he personally responded to the hundreds of complaints. Edit: http://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2012/08/what-happened-to-lendink-owner-explains.html http://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2012/08/what-happened-to-...
  - tedunangst 14y ago
    Thanks. Sounds like the site operator is among the least angry people here.

AFAIK, many authors and publishers sent DMCA notices and other threatening letters to the company hosting LendInk's website. Out of fear of litigation, the hosting company shut down LendInk.

tedunangst 14y ago

I guess I don't understand why somebody would post "Not due to DMCA complaints" on their website if they took it down because of DMCA complaints.

kodablah 14y ago
Firstly, I see "This account has been suspended. Either the domain has been overused, or the reseller ran out of resources." on http://lendink.com http://lendink.com. Secondly, even if it did say that, it could somewhat be construed as true. The DMCA process wasn't necessarily followed since I don't think the hosting company gave the website owner the opportunity to refute them. Again, if I remember correctly, the website owner does not blame the host and did not see it as a fight worth fighting since there was little (or no) revenue involved. Edit: the last paragraph may be incorrect; the hosting company may have given him an out. Regardless, he decided it was not worth the effort.
- icebraining 14y ago
  I see the same as tedunangst: "Currently offline / Not due to DMCA complaints."
- camiller 14y ago
  Yeah, when he first took over LendInk he was an Amazon affiliate. So if a user ended up buying a book that they had borrowed but didn't finish he made a little coin. Once Amazon severed it's affiliate links in California he lost that. Even at it's peak he still didn't make that much money.
- tedunangst 14y ago
  You get a different message at http://www.lendink.com/ http://www.lendink.com/
camiller 14y ago
Somewhere else I read that they were not formal DMCA requests, more like his ISP got flooded with a lot of informal "fix this or we'll sue" notices. The ISP told the guy he could get his site back if he personally responded to the hundreds of complaints. Edit: http://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2012/08/what-happened-to-lendink-owner-explains.html http://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2012/08/what-happened-to-...
- tedunangst 14y ago
  Thanks. Sounds like the site operator is among the least angry people here.