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1. dinkbl+14[view] [source] 2022-08-15 14:40:09
>>M0r13n+(OP)
Hetzner just turned off our hole domain, without contacting us first at all! All servers unreachable, 10k angry customers hammering us. All because if they receive a trademark complaint they won't contact the domain owner first and give them reasonable time to "fix" the "issue" (even 2 hours would have been enough). No, they just turn off the production server and simultaneously send an e-mail "you better respond to their complaint if you want your domain back up".

Totally unprofessional and a complete joke. Will never use them on a production system again. Always angry if they are mentioned here like they are a legitimate choice...

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2. beeboo+pa[view] [source] 2022-08-15 15:09:19
>>dinkbl+14
Heroku did this to me. A former employer was mad at me for daring to leave my job and made a malicious DMCA claim against my website. Heroku took it down with zero notice and treated me like a criminal when I called them to quit their bullshit
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3. fallin+Kg[view] [source] 2022-08-15 15:39:09
>>beeboo+pa
If this was a business site and you had a service interruption you should absolutely sue them for damages.
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4. jkaplo+Yx[view] [source] 2022-08-15 16:51:44
>>fallin+Kg
I think the DMCA protects them against liability for simply staying within the DMCA safe harbor. But if the claim itself was malicious, the DMCA does allow you to sue the person who made the claim.
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5. antifa+iV2[view] [source] 2022-08-16 10:51:47
>>jkaplo+Yx
A cursory googling suggests DCMA takedowns would take 1 day, 72 hours, or up to 10 days on various websites/services. If the law does not mandate it be that fast, then Heroku and Hetzner's alleged actions of less than 2 hours notice would indeed be tortuous and interference with business. They are backbones for businesses, they are not twitter.
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6. jkaplo+AO3[view] [source] 2022-08-16 16:02:54
>>antifa+iV2
The DMCA requires that service providers who wish to benefit from the safe harbor preventions act on takedown notices "expeditiously". No precise quantitative minimum or maximum timeline is provided by legislation, but under 2 hours is certainly expeditious.
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