You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments View context
-8 points
*

Honestly, the question in this case then becomes โ€œhow will anyone be able to enforce it?โ€

permalink
report
parent
reply

ISPs can be compelled to share name/address information of anyone involved in publishing licensed material through the courts. Then theyโ€™ll summon you to stop or pay a fairly hefty fine.

permalink
report
parent
reply
-10 points

Youโ€™d have to first establish that the person under the IP is actually sharing copyrighted material. This is easy to track on something like BitTorrent, but virtually impossible through a regular website. Youโ€™d have to have someone pretending to be your friend, getting access to your song and then filing a complaint.

permalink
report
parent
reply

They would be able to sue the webhost in order to retrieve basically all the data if they have strong and reasonable suspicions that the website is hosting copyrighted material.

This really isnโ€™t as foolproof in legal terms unfortunately. With torrent websites thereโ€™s still some ambiguity as the website doesnโ€™t host the copyrighted material, just the torrent files. But here the website itself is liable, painting a massive legal target on their backs.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Fediverse

!fediverse@lemmy.world

Create post

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all itโ€™s related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!

Rules

  • Posts must be on topic.
  • Be respectful of others.
  • Cite the sources used for graphs and other statistics.
  • Follow the general Lemmy.world rules.

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

Community stats

  • 5.3K

    Monthly active users

  • 1.7K

    Posts

  • 62K

    Comments