A little bit long so bear with me...I have to set it up... I've changed the names and urls for now. I have a press release site with a diverse audience. In the beginning, people posted for SEO support (it had a great PR 6) but gradually lost it. It eventually found a niche audience that has decent traffic so I'm happy and I make $5 per press release. A year ago, someone posted a well-written article about skin care without any links until the end. It was mostly boring but actually made sense unlike real spam. The link was in the very last paragraph, the only paragraph to contain a link or mention a business or a suggestion to buy a product: The link directed to a spa business in California that sold Glo minerals (I have no clue what those are but whatever) and linked directly to the page where the product was sold. There was no affiliate link -- I can deduce what an affiliate link looks like -- it directed straight to the company's official landing page for that product. I own the site on a dedicated server where I also run my mail server and many other websites that I own. Today, I received the following forwarded message from the host where I lease my dedicated servers: They then shut off my site, which hosted 40 other websites of my clients, including an adoption agency and several law firms. I then received another email from the host: I deleted the press release so they would restart my server -- they would not do it unless I deleted the page no matter how much I explained this is wrong -- and this isn't even a copyright claim. I suspect the person even posted the press release himself (or someone in the company) but forgot about it. If he had asked me to remove his own press release, that's easily done. Realize, he never claimed there was a copyright issue, nor even to delete the article which was all about the product, just to remove the link. He claimed there is a trademark issue because whoever posted the press release pasted a link in the last paragraph telling them to buy Glo minerals at his company's website. That's all he asked to be removed. How does a link to a website constitute copyright infringement? And why is it so easy for a host to shut down a server (not just a single website, but close to 40 websites) with such a flimsy claim? They didn't even confirm who he is -- he could have been the retailer's competitor (I've seen these type of shenanigans before). If I told you the hosting company, you would be shocked. I've been with this company since 2003 and have never received any sort of claims about my work.