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Every byte that the end user sees came from Cloudflare's servers. Try making the case that that's not hosting in a court of law.
by beachy 4y ago
Every byte that the end user sees came from Cloudflare's servers. Try making the case that that's not hosting in a court of law.
- CircleSpokes 4y agoThat is a very easy case to make in the US. ISPs have incredibility broad safe harbor laws (even more so when just providing transit instead of actually hosting like this case). They have very broad protection from the consequences of their users' actions.
- jeremyjh 4y agoThey are not just providing transit. They are the front-end webserver receiving the request and sending the response. Transit is someone like AT&T or Sprint.
- CircleSpokes 4y ago>They are the front-end webserver receiving the request and sending the response. When providing ddos protection they are mostly filtering out the attacks then forwarding traffic to the customers back end server. That describes 'transit' pretty well.