Anyone with helpful info about OVH.net? for my lawsuit against them
 

ovh.net is allowing pirates to run free and ignore all abuse requests - looks like legal action is my next recourse.

Anyone have similar problems and want to help out or join forces?

I have a server and vps with OVH and they don't play. I have had some DMCA abuse emails from Chaturbate models and they email me with threats to discontinue my service.

They've always been good in that dept.

Could you provide me with a more direct contact there that might help takedown offending sites that ignore DMCA?

Lulz..cute.

good luck suing one of the biggest hosting companies out there :2 cents::2 cents:

Mine is [email protected]

dmca domain registrar, dmca google , dmca ad networks if they are using any.

If there is a legitimate complaint these companies usually take it seriously as it effects their "brand."

they routinely ignore all emails to this

thus taking it to the next level

.. any reason why they ignore your emails ?

they are very big and very serious ...

they routinely ignore abuse requests from MANY MANY of us victims of piracy..not just me (this is well known and widely discussed)

They are big? How do you think they got there?

You are wasting your time sueing them. They are based in france, where US law does not apply, and I've read that in france a takedown request must be in the form of a court order...

Nope....

Canada also does not have to adhere to DMCA requests, as it's not part of the US - and most of OVH is in france so the server he's trying to get something taken down from isn't nessesarily in Canada...

Have you sent properly formatted DMCA notices ?

If you have contact me via PM, I can get content removed from OVH. My fees for helping out are reasonable. Much cheaper than a lawsuit.

OVH is "big" because of piracy, to all the useless GFY faggots out there. Depositfiles + OVH = strongly linked. The hundreds of millions of dollars made by Depositfiles was very likely directly linked to OVH's now huge data centers.

You're wrong.

He is your man.

OVH was a weird random obscure host at least on frontend with horrible equipment but large bandwidth plans offered (40tb/etc years ago) noticed them when sending DMCA to depositfiles

Years later, one of the bigger hosting companies talked about

They might not be directly related but OVH has and still does benefit hugely from piracy/file lockers

They are indeed headquartered in France.
The Montreal office is just here to have a couple of admins and reps because they opened a big data center in Quebec (water for server cooling is dirt cheap here).
I'm pretty sure you would have to sue the French office if you take any legal action. :2 cents:

OVH has also totally ignored all of my DMCA abuse requests about the site MRSTIFF.com (stealing content with no care in the world and igoring DMCA's) :disgust :disgust

You can't send a DMCA request to a french host, nor anythign other then an American host. If they do anything about it, it's strictly voluntary. Europe has EUCD (European Union Copyright Directive), so the takedown procedure is different here. Sending DMCA to european host is like some guy in UAE sending your US host a takedown notification because porn is illegal in UAE

Ok understood Konrad, they do claim they are not under USA jurisdiction, but they still are mentioning DMCA is required, i dont know if they intentionally add those fucked up characters in there to just make like jibberish more or what :disgust

Right, but they are writing that they are doing so voluntarily, so they could ignore or delay response to the DMCA too. I'm not saying it's right that they ignore it or whatever, i'm just saying that I'm not sure if he would have a legal case against them for not adhering to his DMCA requests that they are not bound to. Taking it to court they would get a court order to remove the content for sure, but they wouldn't likely get punished for not voluntarily doing so.

Ya i get what you mean man, kinda like a sponsor saying "we have the right to refuse any affiliate at any time" etc etc

Sucks though :Oh crap

Gonna research how to work with that EUCD.

OVH does not ignore abuse notices, why don't you just call them up? Whenever I call OVH they have someone answer on the 1st or 2nd ring.

You're talking about a very large company that does not sell servers in the US as of yet so good luck with your legal action. You're better off sending them properly formatted abuse notices instead of threatening them which will get you no where.

Not sure who you're talking to exactly, but I have sent them properly formatted DMCA notices. If you mean they'll remove contents out of "good will" for doing that, then you're very wrong.

1st. I emailed the website owner (mrstiff) asking nicely.
(no reply)

2nd. I go thru on their abuse rules, they even have an email [email protected]
(no reply)

3rd. I asked OVH if they can help me
(no reply)

4th. I sent properly formatted DMCA to OVH
(no reply)

Of course as already said in this thread, they are not covered by USA DMCA law, but to say they are very compliant on content removal is just insane.

try here:
https://forum.ovh.com/

I have called them - they are very polite and nice - then PROMPTLY ignore all abuse and take down requests.

Looks like they are profiting big by being the safe haven for pirates and are protecting their bread and butter.

I have had a 100% success rate in the removal of content from any website hosted at OVH.

First you need a properly formatted DMCA notice.

Second, if that doesn't work you need a DMCA agent or Copyright Advocate to do it for you.

The three I recommend are

Takedown Piracy | The leading name in content protection services
Remove Your Content
http://battleshipstance.com/


Third, if all else fails then I can step in. I can have the offending content removed, usually within 2 - 3 hours on average. You can contact me via PM or go to Copy Control and leave your name, email and a brief message.

If you have not engaged a DMCA agent or if you have not sent OVH a properly formatted DMCA notice to the right place then I will not be able to help you.

I work for an hourly rate which is $165 AUD ( $120 US at current exchange rates). As a general guide, if you pass on 50 properly formatted DMCA notices to me it would typically take me 3 hours to deal with them all.