Sounds a little fishy to me, when the ISP openly admits that they failed several times to notify the website of bandwidth problems.
Add to that the 1-hour notice of shutdown (with NO previous warnings, this looks even fishier), and a complete refusal to turn over the database (the ISP has now slid past 3 agreed-upon deadlines), and this comes across as a giant steaming pile of guano. The ISP has behaved in an unprofessional manner from start to finish; this is self-serving rationalization at best, out-and-out lies at worst.
Yes, lawyers are now involved, and there's the possibility of a real DMCA complaint being filed on the basis of copyrighted materials in the missing database.
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Add to that the 1-hour notice of shutdown (with NO previous warnings, this looks even fishier), and a complete refusal to turn over the database (the ISP has now slid past 3 agreed-upon deadlines), and this comes across as a giant steaming pile of guano. The ISP has behaved in an unprofessional manner from start to finish; this is self-serving rationalization at best, out-and-out lies at worst.
Yes, lawyers are now involved, and there's the possibility of a real DMCA complaint being filed on the basis of copyrighted materials in the missing database.