On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 8:00 AM, William Allen Simpson
What's going on? Since when are we required to take down an entire customer's net for one of their subscriber's so-called infringement?
Since people are afraid. Organizations may send DMCA letters, whether they are valid or not; the recipient may disconnect what the sender wants, and is unlikely to consider whether they really must do it or not. It's easier to do what the bully wants than be a guinea pig and have some risk of being sued, or other unforseen consequences. Note that the 512(a) safe harbor of the DMCA does not include a requirement of removing material when notified; only the 512(c) safe harbor includes that requirement, and it's for providers that actually store the material. - http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/faq.cgi#QID472 US Title 17, Chapter 5, Sec 512, (c) http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#512 " (c) Information Residing on Systems or Networks at Direction of Users." ersus "(a) Transitory Digital Network Communications. ... A service provider shall not be liable for monetary relief, or, except as provided in subsection (j), for injunctive or other equitable relief, for infringement of copyright by reason of the provider's transmitting, routing, or providing connections for, ...." It's a bit hard (impossible) to "expeditiously remove" material that your equipment isn't storing, but that a downstream network is storing. The DMCA doesn't say anything about severing connectivity to computers on a network. That's just what the wronged party wants, the collateral damage doesn't effect them. -- -J