“The consequences of this will be that hosting providers receiving complaints will most likely kick out their customers without a court ruling, for things that might be perfectly legal.”
GitHub hosts the youtube-dl code and refused the RIAA’s takedown. So Sony, Warner and Universal sued Uberspace, the German host of the project’s website, and the Hamburg court ruled Uberspace liable for not pulling it. Uberspace paid its own lawyer, who concluded the tool was legal. The labels skipped Microsoft and went after the small target. Every host in Germany now learns that doing legal research is the expensive option.