I've been running a TPB proxy for almost a year now. I've found that hosting it in Europe is ideal since it's closer to TPB and some hosts will ignore DMCA's. I'm not sure how American hosts handle

Lithuania comes to mind in terms of DMCA.

I've always wondered how dmca etc. would work for that... wouldn't the jurisdiction apply to the "base station" country?

It depends on what you consider offshore. If we're talking about things like DMCA, Iran is pretty offshore.

You have 'DMCA' listed as one of your tags so if by "offshore" you mean "ignores copyright violations" then the only real "offshore" country is Ir

@jarland - Some people like @darknessends. amongst others, really deserve to go through the experience. I wonder what the others will do when the DMCA notices come in, vote him off the island?

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Nobody wants to deal with public trackers and the DMCAs that come with them, not even Kimsufi/OVH

@darknessends - And what are you going to do when those DMCA notices start rolling in?

* Copyright and DMCA must be strictly followed.

I think you get knocked off at the first DMCA if you do the mp3 site, I am not sure about the legal adult site.

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You will receive a lot of DMCA and many USA provider will not be happy if that happens.

It's not illegal to link to infringing content, except in a very few limited circumstances. DMCA notices for linking to infringing content can, and should, be directed to /dev/null.

I think 99% of hosts would disagree with you the moment they receive a DMCA

The community is not going to have the headaches of disks failing, alerts at 2am, DMCA notices, DDOS attacks, resource abusers, support tickets, etc.

* Copyright and DMCA must be strictly followed.

I am afraid of a DMCA if I don't write enough positive comments.... /joking

US. I actually have no value for the proclaimed DMCA ignoring, etc aspect to it. Also my point was @rsk has a good support ethic and his server performs well. If the reason you had gone with Solar