[Lex]

What used to happen in the event of copyright infringement, is it's the legal office of one big company talking to the legal office of another big company. That was the situation for which copyright laws were made and tuned for.

However there have never been a time, until now, that content creators can create, publish, and have their creations known, all on their own and without being part of a big publishing house / music label / film company etc. Thus, we hear stories of companies, bringing their legal machinery to bear, on these individual in what seems like an overkill. I don't see it as an over-the-top reaction or anything, it's just a symptom of the fact that copyright laws and how these laws are enforced are not fit for the internet 2.0 era, and there isn't much middle ground right now between doing nothing and filing a full copyright lawsuit in your face.