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what they say and do seem to be different things then; as in most of eastern europe.
That's why the order is placed under anonymous name and paid in BTC, as well as the server will only act as a reverse proxy passing SSL traffic to the real server somewhere else. I'm sure there's no 100% safe, but it should help a bit, especially when the source is copyright / DMCA stuff, not some activities you know.
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CIS countries doesn't care about filesharing because its legal to share, no one sued for filesharing. VPN also not illegal at any kind. Tor, etc
If talking about Russia and Sweden just remind a stories with Snowden and with Pirate Bay..
not really vps but dedicated - novogara.com, warez allowed
TPB is behind Cloudflare CDN and a Reverse proxy/loadbalancer hosted in Vietnam by removed. True location of the actual webserver of piratebay is unknown and only removedcould find it out.
Source: https://torrentfreak.com/images/MPAA-USTR-2016.pdf
Then someone taps your port, takes the outgoing IP (= your backend), go there, raid, and continue the chain if reverse. Welcome to the bust of 1337crew.
This works with eg. Tor in the middle but makes it slow and rather pointless.
Tor does not generate filesharing abuse primarily anyone cares about (in DE the laws exempt you as ISP from any liability eg.) - mostly it is hacking and CP.
Bahnhof generally stands up for customers, yes, they however still have ultimately business interest directed by Swedish people and government as well as their owners/"shareholders".
It's still highly questionable who owns cloudflare or exercises control over it (and thus the metdata as well as, even worse, the SSL termination).
That report is also either wrong now or simply outdated - the site responds faster to an uncached query (HEAD response) than the latency from my location to Vietnam has in a fiber connection via LA.
After reading this more closely, 80% of the report are wrong anyway especially concerning the hosting locations and their information quality is low:
Seems like still golden times for warez, MPAA being useless as always, thankfully they even provide hosting provider suggestions as well as registrar suggestion in this report, which should be appreciated!
If an artist goes to great lengths to get something removed - why not just remove it? Especially when, most of the time, there are never any complaints. You should respect artists' wishes just out of respect for art, especially when they are small independents.
CloudFlare will give backend IP if DMCA letter is valid. Considering that, the info on the report should be from latest handout and thus rather fresh. You sure you did not hit the CDN when testing? :P
Untrue, CF gives out the abuse email of the backend hosting provider and will also send an email to the backend hosting provider themselves notifying them of the submitted offence(s)
@lion Is that wrong? No, it's not wrong. Right. ITLDC.com, vStoike.RU and MivoCloud.com serve many anonymous services. They all ignore the DMCA. I know I used it before. You can receive services reliably. @56gomez, @William
No, they do not do that in all cases and you can see this in the report also - all CF hosted sites outside of TBP do not list an exact hosting location and they acknowledge that they cannot find it.
Dude, It was in Sweden previously till Swedish police raid them under FBI request. Folks get 5 years jail and huge bills they cannot pay even with whole life, one even hide in Ecuador embassy in UK from FBI. That question about who owned who, even with bulletproof Sweden
... and this is relevant how? If anything it proves that Sweden cannot be bulletproof, neither is Vietnam (VNPT reads abuse, unlike CNC) however they just don't care at this time.
So do we have a front runner for the OP?
And also remind (compare) with story when even Putin defends Snowden when he arrived in Moscow airport than found no one from EU can accept them for landing under US FBI request..
It's not as simple as you paint it and neither you nor i have enough informations to judge this - just as reference however: The Chinese wanted him gone from HK, immediately, no matter to where, to avoid any issues.
That the Russians accepted him was not pure curiosity or fuck you to the US either, it's about information - The Russians do not care much if they release it public or only give it to the FSB (which they would like obviously, but ultimately it does not matter if they get it). Thus, he is more worth in Moscow and equipped with some $$$ than dead (him surviving is rare anyway, if it would have been a Mossad/Shabak agent he'd be dead before getting out of HK).
Talking about, whole EU under FBI jurisdiction,sounds about some bulletproof countries inside just rude. Can be easy raided under request.
Strictly speaking, no hosting provider may be considered reliable enough. I do not discuss political events, they are always beyond reason. Everything can be either bought, isolated or destroyed, depending on adversary's intentions.
Talking of hosting, there are a few Iceland companies:
orangehost.com
1984hosting.com
Anyone, comment?
You can look at wjunction forum, there is many warez uploader discuss about this and also offshore provider offers.
The FBI can't do shit in Austria and tried over years for tax things - we do not even give data to the Germans or other EU countries. The US has some influence over NATO members and major trading partners; most of the EU is neither.
If "Most of the time, there are never any complaints" is true - then why wouldn't @fishwharf just remove occasional content? I think he's understating his crimes against property. He's hosting something that is probably flooding his provider(s) with abuse reports (and maybe a DDoS) and no host is going to want that.
Iceland also NATO member, meant not a bulletproof, and under FBI jurisdiction already. Wrong way.
@OP
Doing anti-SEO and making things invisible for the unregistered public, crawlers and bots would help preserving your hosting as well.
Under international law if you have contact with the US including planning, attempting, conspiring, or the actual carrying out partially or wholly an act that would give rise to liability, the US has jurisdiction over you. This is not considered extraterritorial. This actually is the 2nd cornerstone of the Geneva Conventions and reaffirmed by the US Supreme Court in Morrison v. Nat'l Bank of Australia in 2010 (criminal) and Royal Dutch Shell v. Kiobel (civil). While the Kiobel decision is... kind of a mess, generally the bright line rule is set.
There is no bulletproof hosting (in China you need an ICP#. Don't speak Chinese? Find a partner who have to own more than you do in the stake, wooooo). There's only "don't care about you" hosting.
Was is extraterritorial or not? Since 2013 the rules have definitively changed.
OK, what are the options, then, apart from beautiful unreachable land of Nowhere?
Check out https://black.host/dmca-ignored-vps-hosting
Russia and Iran would like to have a word about "US jurisdiction" with you, as does China - the largest US trading partner... - because the US certainly, as we see on the Russian sanctions and the 10y+ failed ones on Iran, can't do shit despite them doing business with the US, West or Asian world (where do you think this Iranian oil went in sanction times? India, China, Africa... RMB are as good as $ economically)
Which is pointless, Taiwan also claims all of China (and China claims a LOT more than they occupy now) - If you do not have the military power + economic power + international support + people support this does not mean anything, the US cannot invade Russia by any of them and all nuclear powers are entirely off limits (which yes, includes North Korea, as the idiots while being... idiots... do endanger Seoul if not all up to Busan).
You also forget that the UN security council is higher than this and has 2 permanent non-west veto powers which regularly vote against US sanctions on Syria and Iran etc. - while the US does the same on the anti-Israel ones, we kind of even out there.