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Originally Posted by nextri
The problem many have with this law though, is that it overreaches, and you risk problems even if you run a perfectly legit site.
Some copyright owner could contact your hosting, credit card processor, isp or paypal and make a claim that your site has copyrighted content on it, and you could get shut down, even if the claim was false, or your usage of said content was fair use. If paypal or your host or isp shuts your site down, but it turns out the claim was false. They are exempt from prosecution. So they risk nothing by just shutting you down instead of actually finding out if the claim is legit or not.
I find it strange that a lot of the people I see that are supporting this bill, are many of the same people who are screaming for a smaller government and less regulations...
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Any hosting, credit card processor, isp, etc. That shut down your site on the strength of an anon email. Is a company you shouldn't be doing business with and opening themselves to a ton of trouble.
Go read the act and try to understand it. It has something that says the ISP has to reasonably believe the site is breaking the law. So an anon email and not checking if the site is breaking the law, is going to look pretty foolish in court.
Of course for the ISPs to check each registered letter will take extra work and extra staff, which people will have to pay for. This might mean they think twice before doing business with Tube, file sharing sites, piracy sites, etc. Or put up their prices. Cost of doing business and staying within the law. Just like Google will have to employ more people to check Youtube, or close.
How will life function without Youtube!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously does anyone think a company is going to risk crashing a site because
[email protected] sent a notice?
