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Your hosting company is bound by US laws. Their defense for hosting illegal content is the DMCA, which allows them to claim that it is your responsibility (the
by remram 2y ago
Your hosting company is bound by US laws. Their defense for hosting illegal content is the DMCA, which allows them to claim that it is your responsibility (the end-user's).
This is the entire point of DMCA: exempt service providers from indirect liability for content on their network (at the cost of taking action for that content upon receiving notice).
If DMCA applied to them but not to you, how could that possibly work? A US company could host content that no one is responsible for?
In other words: this is not about you but about your hosting company. They are the ones the DMCA apply to, and was written for. This is true no matter where you live, if your hosting company is US.
- account42 2y agoYou think it's reasonable for companies worldwide to be bound by US law? Companies doing business in the US, sure, but random hosting companies? Do you also expect US companies to honor takedown requests according to North Korean law?
- remram 2y agoWe are talking about a US company here.
- BiteCode_dev 2y agoNo, I'm definitely not a US company.
- remram 2y agoI misunderstood "Of course it's not" upthread then. If you are not using a US hosting company, obviously you are free of the DMCA.