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Re:RIAA to .ORG Registry: Take down ThePirateBay by icebraining on Monday June 06, 2016 @04:48PM (#11850215)
As much as it pains me, I have to disagree; in 17 U.S. Code ยง 512 (d), it says providers have to comply with the DMCA takedown requests if they want to avoid being convicted of "infringement of copyright by reason of the provider referring or linking users to an online location containing infringing material or infringing activity, by using information location tools, including a directory, index, reference, pointer, or hypertext link".

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512

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Re:RIAA to .ORG Registry: Take down ThePirateBay by AnthonyMouse on Monday June 06, 2016 @07:28PM (#11851333)
Technically that says they "shall not be liable" for those things if they comply with the DMCA takedown process. It doesn't say anything about what happens if they don't.

There is some caselaw about what happens in that case (e.g. Grokster) but it's more complicated than "if you link to The Hollywood there is jail."

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Re:RIAA to .ORG Registry: Take down ThePirateBay by robhu on Monday June 06, 2016 @06:38PM (#11851050)
A US law which does not apply to the non-US entity TPB, surely?
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