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The DMCA is treated as a joke by these companies. I helped a friend, who was being doxed on a domain comprised of his full legal name, where they were using ph
by downandout 5y ago
The DMCA is treated as a joke by these companies. I helped a friend, who was being doxed on a domain comprised of his full legal name, where they were using photographs and other content that belonged to him, file a DMCA takedown request with Digital Ocean. They did absolutely nothing about it, other than sending a notification to the perpetrator that a complaint had been filed.
These laws, like DMCA and the CDA, really need to be modified to impose more legal liability on service providers over situations like this. I know that many people on HN frown upon this view, but the gaping holes in these laws are enabling digital terrorism, extortion/blackmail, stalking, harassment, and copyright violations with no recourse for the victims.
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- PaywallBuster 5y agoShould follow up with DO after a period (say 72h). A company that big would be in trouble to ignore DCMA notices. Could also try contacting upstream providers if worth the trouble.
- kota2 5y agoWhat is the recommended way to find out the hosting company of a website, and then the upstream ISP's, when contacting the offending site host does no good? Thanks in advance.
- chrsig 5y agoAnother consideration: we shouldn't be relying on copyright law to protect against doxing. Online privacy rights should be their own thing, and treated much more harshly than copyright infringement.
- cto_of_antifa 5y agoThen we could go from digital ocean doing nothing to the cops doing nothing.
- downandout 5y agoThat would be great, but unfortunately cops don't seem to care, even under rather egregious circumstances. My friend went to both the FBI and local police, after the person that controls the website said they would take it down in exchange for $100K. Textbook blackmail. Yet they never did anything about it.