DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS

Re:DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Ta... by beachstartup on Thursday March 06, 2014 @08:45PM (#7357959)

celebrity photos are huge, huge business. sites pop up all the time trying to monetize papparazzi shots and hosting providers have to deal with all sorts of fallout from anyone with a vested interested in the intellectual property or famous name.

these people do not give a shit about the streisand effect. they are going after their money.

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Re:DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Ta... by MichaelGG on Friday March 07, 2014 @02:39AM (#7358955)

So in that case DO receives a DMCA takedown, they comply, and let the customer deal with it? Or you're saying they file malicious lawsuits against the hosting provider and courts happily allow these suits to proceed and don't award fees to a neutral hosting provider?

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Re:DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Ta... by raiyu on Friday March 07, 2014 @05:01PM (#7363039)

We forward any abuse complaints that we receive to the owner of the account and ask that they handle them.

We try not to interpret the law as that is not our specialty of course, we are simply saying that we would like that customers use the service for a non-malicious purpose. But we're more than happy to open up a dialogue about this and make amendments if necessary.

Thanks!

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