Posted ~June 14: Digitalfire faced a takedown order (with threat to sue if not complied with by June 26) from Plainsman Clays (dated Wed, June 10). It took a few days to realize its scope. It wide-reaching terminology revoked permission to "use any Plainsman content" "on any platform". This was broad and vague enough, and the site large enough, that I was unable to even begin to comply in the short timeframe. This notice arrived with a threat to turn over the plainsmanclays.ca URL, which I rightfully owned (using it to voluntarily fund and maintain a live site backup) and plainsmanpotterysupply.com (their asset on their GoDaddy account which I didn't have access to). Panic ensued and I had to shut down Digitalfire for parts of two days during the week 15-19 because so many people were taking backups. My focus became getting them to relent on the demand, call off the lawyer, agree that digitalfire.com is just commentary and I have the right to share research that I compiled. I urged people to stop download and assured them that lots of backup sites already have the content protected.
There was alarm among Insight-live.com users, I put a banner there assuring them that it was not affected by this issue.
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