Comment by chadsix
8 months ago
> Not sure it's really in their best interest to self-police in the end, as they could lose their DMCA safe harbor provision ?
This.
That said, we're seeing this across so many platforms, from datacenters to social network sites.
They blew their safe harbor provisions years ago and yet remain untouched despite this.
It’s not “editorial” to choose to stop serving (or charge more money to) a customer whose actions pose legal difficulties or risks to your business. If some country’s vice division contacts cloudflare legal due to a customer’s illegal online gambling presence, I guarantee that cop does not care about a US/EU copyright law.
The same thing is true for IP reputation, just without an external official complaining. If other CF customers are negatively impacted by one customer’s action, CF isn’t violating safe harbor by booting that customer or passing on the costs of mitigating that impact. That’s just running a business, not exercising editorial review of hosted content in violation of safe harbor provisions.