[bdowling]

> Having to pull content down without any order from a judge is nonsense.

An ISP is not required to pull content down when they receive a DMCA takedown notice. If the ISP takes the content down, however, they receive immunity from liability for any alleged copyright infringement. The ISP usually doesn't have the time or money to investigate whether the takedown notice is legitimate or not, so their first reaction is to take the content down.

Cases like this, where the person sending the takedown notice doesn't seem to understand that the ISP isn't hosting any infringing content, are pretty rare. If the ISP in this case reinstated the content, then the copyright owner would do more investigation before actually filing a lawsuit. If that happened, they would find that there isn't any actual infringement, so they wouldn't file a lawsuit.