Yes and no.

It would be protected if the owner of the website is not violating any Terms of Service of the provider that he's using to host it.

It would also be protected if the owner of the website is actually running the site himself. I mean, it's not a Leased IP address (like from your cable modem provider), it's a bought and paid for IP, it's his own bandwidth and his own server.


I should clarify, in either case it's technically PROTECTED under the 1st, but again; policies of whatever company(s) he's using to help host it may prohibit use for that type of thing and then they could remove it.

But again, if he ran everything and it was all 100% his, no one could make him remove it.