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No one is advocating that Cloudflare should be the moral arbiter tasked with policing all sites on the internet, and what you are complaining about is actually

No one is advocating that Cloudflare should be the moral arbiter tasked with policing all sites on the internet, and what you are complaining about is actually the opposite of what is generally true on the internet today -- it is far, far too easy to take down a website with a frivolous or even completely fabricated DMCA claim. For cases like this where there is legitimate fraud going on, there is a well-established legal process to follow -- get law enforcement involved, get a warrant, require cloudflare to release information on that particular customer through the legal process, get ICANN to revoke the domain if you own the trademark, etc. It shouldn't be as easy as "send a quick email to cloudflare and the site goes down". This is by design -- only in extreme cases should stuff get taken down. Please stop trying to make it easier to censor the web. Lets also not forget about fair use -- right now the TOS on Youtube and Twitch counts cases of legitimate fair use, like using a 10-20 second segment of a taylor swift song in a gaming montage, as an automatic DMCA strike. Slowly but surely they have eroded the definition of fair use to basically mean there is no such thing as fair use in practice. Complain about that shit instead?

ksec 5y ago
>No one is advocating that Cloudflare should be the moral arbiter tasked with policing all sites on the internet, Except that is what I see both on and off the internet. That is why I raised the question. Especially where there is a distinction between Hosting provider and transit provider. It would be more appreciated in this case to be writing to the site's host and not Cloudflare. ( Unless it is hosted on Cloudflare workers then we would have argue it differently ) Or as OP have pointed to the different about banks. It is all about different layer of stack, which people often seems to lump it all together. DMCA is completely separate issues. But I do agree DMCA is being misused a lot.

ksec 5y ago

>No one is advocating that Cloudflare should be the moral arbiter tasked with policing all sites on the internet, Except that is what I see both on and off the internet. That is why I raised the question. Especially where there is a distinction between Hosting provider and transit provider. It would be more appreciated in this case to be writing to the site's host and not Cloudflare. ( Unless it is hosted on Cloudflare workers then we would have argue it differently ) Or as OP have pointed to the different about banks. It is all about different layer of stack, which people often seems to lump it all together. DMCA is completely separate issues. But I do agree DMCA is being misused a lot.