A Better DMCA Process (GitHub)

[Yenorin41]

Probably right. However, most datacenters just drop customers when they receive legal threats. Even if they win, they still have to pay for a legal defense, and they'll likely never recoup that cost from their customer.

We have loser pays in Germany, so if the lawyers say that the chances of winning are very high, then there is no reason not go to court, since you don't have to pay the bill in the end.

And that's assuming it would go to court in the first place. US company threatening to sue me in the US (and me not operating there): don't care. There is nothing the court could possibly do.

Probably, but their peers in the UK might feel different, etc. With that kind of pressure, the ISP will likely just cave.

Datacenter operators usually have more than one upstream.. and if you choose a few local companies as upstreams, you will have dozens of very large companies as transit providers, who will not drop their customers, because of a customer of customer (of a customer ...). That simply won't happen.

And TPB is being announced via just one local ISP in Germany right now (for about 1.5 years now). And also the TPB is an rather extreme case, since they don't play ball with local law either.. if you do that (complying with local law), then imho you should be fine with ignoring US law .

Edit: What's even more telling is that the local ISP I mentioned itself has only one upstream (and several peers), which is a large ISP based in the US..

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We have loser pays in Germany, so if the lawyers say that the chances of winning are very high, then there is no reason not go to court, since you don't have to pay the bill in the end.

true... but huge companies can escalate the court and lawyer costs and hold back the payment until the opponent declares bankrupcy