Annnnd complete. Whole thing over in 9 minutes. No DMCA crap, no making up excuses about government clients or arbitrarily suspending accounts or whatever. Problem solved, and we can move on knowing w

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So you're saying that if you receive an abuse complaint that someone is DoSing a server from your network, you won't do anything because it's not a DMCA?

They don't have a fundamental understanding of DMCA.

went totally unanswered, and none of them were DMCA-related.

Without a DMCA, there's nothing our support desk can do. You try suspending a server without a proper DMCA and let us know what your client says.

In France if you violate somebody's copyright 3 times (think 3 DMCA notices) you get a lifetime ban from accessing the Internet. In 2011 the Constitutional Council of France validated Article 4 of the

OVH only treat DMCA complaints as normal copyright infringement notices, so they simply forward them onto you (unless your American, then they shut you off).

I do use OVH myself, and they are good if you have strict rules for your clients, as sometimes even a single dmca notice will force them to stop your server, or "lock" it with ftp re

Encrypting torrent traffic does not help when MediaSentry sends out a blanket DMCA because your IP is listed as a peer/seed.

Back on topic, it sounds like you chose inexperienced hosts. There were methods of issuing legal takedown notices before the DMCA passed through... any provider that actually panicked over having a D

It was shortly after DMCA passed, it wasnt understood, it wasnt clear where it applies, not all providers have extensive legal departments.

provider to take me down. It was shortly after DMCA passed and all providers were scared to death, so nobody investigated, I was sent a mail to my domain I was hosting on same home connection (only o

Some DCs are hosting Tor for many years, some others are hosting high debit exit nodes with 0 problems (of course, if we dont count the automatic DMCA notices and the admins that have no idea what the

Even if the provider allows exit nodes, I dont allow all ports !25, just the relevant ports for mail and web, as such, I never had DMCA bots hitting my provider, but cant say been trouble free, up to

DMCA has safe harbour provisions, for example, if you want some cases of providers being protected, however, if you dont provide cases where ppl were harmed, i cant show the law protected them.

fine with it. And for the most part, the robot DMCAs go nowhere after you reply with an EFF-recommended form letter of your own.

One day we will have providers that openly offer Tor packages (minimal memory, disk,cpu and medium-high bw), that forward automatically abuse complaints and/or have a policy regarding which (if any) p

Its the French version of DMCA, sort-of... or, at least, the equivalent.

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