host just to get away from the ever trolling DMCA bots that patrol google for keywords not even bothering to involve a human to verify if something was infringing, and even if they did involve a huma

Wrong. EUCD does apply even if its sent as DMCA. You cannot just ignore law because the lawyer labeled it as a DMCA report. Refer to http://www.fipr.org/copyright/guide/eucd-guide.pdf

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Here is an example of why a DMCA Copyright Infringement notification is not the same thing as being notified of copyright infringement. It is generally accepted that in the US, linking to copyright ma

It's actually exactly what I said. The host needs to know about the infringing content. DMCA's scope is ambiguous, more so than in the EU or HK. Not everything covered under DMCA is considered illegal

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Well, he said some contury, so it doesn't need to be EU one. if you can ignore DMCA in HK (or any other place, like Russia) then his statement is true.

a proxy of this type. Like so-called "dmca ignored" hosting I think it's best to be a bit discreet, and I'm all for banning shoeproxies. But if someone wants to use their paid Hul

Yes I'm sure. Again, if you read what I said, most hosts may simply treat it as the same as the equivalent laws in their own countries. But DMCA is specific to the US. The specifics laws of each count

Are you sure ? I’d argue that the DMCA takedown request is a notification under EU copyright directives. This in turn prevents your defence as a hosting provider that you didn’t knew what the contents

Totally. Technically any non USA based host can 100% ignore DMCA take down requests. But the term DMCA is now synonymous with Copyright Infringement notification, which most hosts cannot ignore. I me

The number of bogus reports we get is really quite surprising. Basically a 3rd party company sends us a DMCA or similar take down request, but then they provide 0 proof of infringement, let alone that

ITT: ignoring DMCA != ignoring infringement

There are few hosts here that completely ignore DMCA but not the european copyright equiviliment.

If you receive a false DMCA takedown notice, then lodge a counter-notice stating that the takedown request is invalid - the issue will be resolved 99.9% of the time.

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We happily ignore DMCA take down requests... Just so long as the reports are bogus. There are no safe harbor for copy right infringement

You could call every non-US based providers DMCA ingnored since most of them don't care and they don't have to

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