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It's infuriating but practically true. I had a few services that received illegitimate DMCA notices that I ignored. They were either blatantly fraudulent, autom
by BiteCode_dev 6mo ago
It's infuriating but practically true. I had a few services that received illegitimate DMCA notices that I ignored. They were either blatantly fraudulent, automated junk or just not applicable to the law of the country where I'm hosting.
They escalated to either my hosting or my domain name provider, who then threatened to cut me off for not complying. No discussion with them would work in my favor. I had to comply with this BS. I got cut off several times for completely wrong reasons.
They don't care. It's not worth the legal risk for them. I'm not big enough.
So in the end, the US CAN indeed do that.
- buccal 6mo ago[flagged]
- ndsipa_pomu 6mo agoReceiving illegitimate DMCA notices is not the same as hosting criminal services.
- subscribed 6mo agoSo if you're fraudulently accused of wrongdoing that makes you a criminal? Nice, nice....
- HDThoreaun 6mo agoIn this case, yes. Ignoring invalid dmca requests is not a legal way to deal with them.
- direwolf20 6mo agoIt's completely legal to ignore a DMCA notice. These notices set up a procedure where you're definitely not liable, but it doesn't mean it's the only way to not be liable. You can also not be liable if you - for example - didn't do anything illegal.
- subscribed 6mo agoWhat od you mean it's not legal? If I don't live in the US and/or didn't do whatever the fraudulent DMCA notice accused me of doing, why do I have to process it? Remember the context.
- Dylan16807 6mo agoMy interpretation was "if they'll serve criminals, they won't care if someone accuses you of a crime". But that doesn't apply to cloudflare hosting so it still comes across as a pointless snipe.
- toyg 6mo agoDid you engage any lawyer/solicitor? Companies don't care about individuals, but they do fear lawyers.
- NegativeK 6mo agoMy experience with lawyers helping me respond to other lawyers is "Stop interacting with that person". Unless I'm spending way more money, I'd expect any company to fire me as a client as fast as legally possible if I threatened them with a lawyer.
- direwolf20 6mo agoAnna's Archive has clearly discovered, by trial and error, which hosts work and which don't. "DMCA ignored hosting" isn't even illegal. Ignoring a liability shield doesn't make you actually liable
- mattmaroon 6mo agoThe US, or any nation state?