haroldfinch@lemmy.mlOPtoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•How do VPN companies get away with DMCA?English
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1 month agoBut it’s VPN providers who rent the servers that have downloaded the torrents. So they can basically say it’s not done by us, but the users of our service, and thus they don’t bear any consequences? It seems like such a good business model.
VPN providers do not bear any responsibilities for providing services for piracy.
The DMCA’s principal innovation in the field of copyright is the exemption from direct and indirect liability of Internet service providers and other intermediaries.
So technically if VPN providers do not keep logs, you are fine. But since it’s impossible to know how VPN providers servers are implemented, still there are risks.
I mostly use public trackers. Maybe it’s just my ISP doesn’t care.
Great comment. Here is an excerpt from Nord VPN’s TOS
A Snippet from Express VPN"s TOS: