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This is a fairly awful policy for cloud hosting and VPSes. Microsoft's policy, and I suspect Amazon's and Google's, are to forward legal requests to the company
by AaronFriel 10y ago
This is a fairly awful policy for cloud hosting and VPSes. Microsoft's policy, and I suspect Amazon's and Google's, are to forward legal requests to the company or client using their cloud services and wash their hands of the matter.
For DigitalOcean to intervene here seems strange.
- eeeeeeeeeeeee 10y agoI am not a lawyer... That is partially correct, but the host (DO), still needs to ensure the content was removed. If they pass it on and the account owner ignores it, DO could potentially be liable.
- ultramancool 10y agoYeah, but I'm on DigitalOcean and I got a takedown just the other week for something a user uploaded. I removed it and informed them within the hour and all was good. It's possible they ignored this type of thing or that they just didn't want the mess...
- eeeeeeeeeeeee 10y agoThat's how most places handle it in my experience, but it does depend on the scope. I've received some from large companies with big legal teams and then our hosts' legal counsel gets very involved in the process. Given this is the NRA, it might have to do with that, or it could simply be some overzealous staff member.