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Originally Posted by adejoode
There seems to be a lot of confusion on who LeaseWeb is and how we handle abuse.
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Scumbags who make shitloads of money hosting warez and piracy sites.
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Please let me explain who LeaseWeb is:
LeaseWeb is a hosting company specialized in selling self-managed dedicated servers. We have one of the best networks available globally, due to our seize and scale we can offer a superior product for a very competitive price.
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And we'll host the shit outta any piracy site you can imagine. Open a "user generated" CP site that hotlinks to CP downloads on Filesonic...sure...we'll host you!
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LeaseWeb has operations in 3 countries: Netherlands (via LeaseWeb BV), Germany (via LeaseWeb Germany GmbH) and United States (via LeaseWeb USA Inc). These are 3 seperate (legal) entities, all 3 engage in the same market: self-managed dedicated hosting.
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All 3 also engage in hosting warez and piracy sites and we don't give a fuck where the money comes from as long as we're making bank baby!
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How we handle abuse:
For the US based servers (sold via LeaseWeb USA Inc) we strictly adhere to the DMCA procedure as this is the jurisdiction where the servers are located in. For the European operations we are bound by the EU' E-Commerce Directive (the legal environment for those operating companies in The Netherlands and Germany).
The DMCA is not a valid instrument in Europe so we -cannot- disconnect a client based on receipt of a DMCA notice and tell him to sent us a count-DMCA before we reconnect him. This is, legally, not an option for our NL based operations. Under the E-Commerce Directive LeaseWeb is -not- liable for any perceived copyright infringements as we are a 'mere conduit' (we have no control over the content). Under the E-Commerce Directive the website itself is where you have to request a take down. So if LeaseWeb were to do nothing, legally it would be off the hook.
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AKA the we don't have to do anything act
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Our Corporate Social Responsability however mandates we also take into account the burden this would put on rights holders, therefore we do contact and escalate complaints we receive to our clients. We request them to take down obvious infringing content we have received notifictions for, and as far as we can see they always comply.
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This is complete horseshit but it sure looks good to type. We don't actually do anything if the site doesn't comply....we just keep cashing those checks bitches!!!
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So a statement 'LeaseWeb is not DMCA respecting hosting provider' is not only factually incorrect (we do respect the DMCA in the US) but also does imply we do not care about copyrights at all. That is a gross misrepresentation of the way we deal with infringement claims. We do have a strict policy on copyright, we do suspend customers who are unwilling to remove content on the request of rights holders.
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#notintendedtobeafactualstatement. In actuality, we are the GO TO host for copyright theives and cash whores, that is if Ecatel won't take you.
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Alex de Joode
Security Officer @LeaseWeb
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Head piracy site handholder
#thetruth
Also, keep in mind that XBIZ has nominated these scumbags for Best Host....If Leaseweb wins, we riot.