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Does the de-duplication aspect of it have any impact on DMCA/copyright issues? For example, lets say somebody from HBO downloads Game of Thrones from The Pirat
by fletchowns 13y ago
Does the de-duplication aspect of it have any impact on DMCA/copyright issues?
For example, lets say somebody from HBO downloads Game of Thrones from The Pirate Bay and then uploads it to Streem. We could assume that many other people on Streem also have that same copy of the episode uploaded. HBO then issues a DMCA takedown (could they?), would Streem delete the file for everybody? And does Streem then have to prevent anybody from re-uploading it?
- Meekro 13y agoSince there's no way to globally "publish" a file, I don't see how DMCA takedowns could work.
- fletchowns 13y agoHence why in my hypothetical it would take the copyright holder themselves to both upload the file as well as issue the DMCA takedown.
- Meekro 13y agoBy uploading the file, wouldn't the copyright holder be authorizing the cloud service to store it for them?
- ritikm 13y agoWe follow the same DMCA policy as Dropbox, etc. [1] If we get a DMCA takedown notice, we disable public linking and sharing on the file. The original owner gets to keep the file in their own account (exactly how Dropbox works). [1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/30/how-dropbox-knows-when-youre-sharing-copyrighted-stuff-without-actually-looking-at-your-stuff/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/30/how-dropbox-knows-when-your...