[yummybear]

My hunch tells me this will be used as a tactical weapon by rights holders and PR companies to bury negative publicity in lawyer fees.

You can argue that you are using some content fairly and you did your best to prevent it in court while paying 500$/hr to your layer, or you can simply remove it.

But yeah, that won't be a problem for 95% of companies and startups - but it will be for some.

[preommr]

I wonder about that, because I don't think there are many european countries that follow the "American rule" system where each party pays it's own fees.

In the "English rule" system the losing party pays for the legal fees so a rich person can't just arbitrarily spam law suits.

But then again, I am making a lot of assumptions here (but then again it seems like so is everyone else here) so I don't know about the exact legal details that could change things.