A question about bittorent and DMCA notice

[Igor_Khomiakov]

Hi there!

In the event you receive a DMCA takedown notice or European equivalent, how are these handled?

[jcastets]

Hi Igor,

As the account holder you are responsible for all the traffic going through your server.

Be aware that your servers/account may be suspended if your server emits anormal traffic (torrents, spam, ssh probes, hacking attempts, botnets, ddos, etc)

[Igor_Khomiakov]

The company advertises a seedbox functionality so it would be nice if the company could states very clear how scaleway is coing to deal with possible copyright infridgement/DMCA notices or European equivalent of such things.

[jcastets]

From our ToS (english translation):

The dissemination of tangible or intangible property protected by
intellectual, literary, artistic or industrial property rights that may
constitute counterfeiting. Under law no. 2009-669 of 12 June 2009, in
consideration of the dangers for the renewal of artistic creation and
for the economy of the cultural sector from practices not complying with
copyright and performing rights, Users are obliged to ensure that their
access is not used for the purposes of reproduction, representation,
provision or communication to the public of works or objects protected
by copyright or performing rights without the authorisation of the
holders of the rights specified in books I and II of the Intellectual
Property Code. Any breach of this obligation by a User or by
third-parties to which the User gives its access, is likely to incur
liability on the User’s part. In particular, SCALEWAY may be forced by
the HADOPI to suspend Users’ access to on-line services used to
communicate with the public. Users are reminded that a legal product
exists providing cultural content on-line and means to secure it that
can be used to prevent breaches of the obligation defined in article L.
336-3 of the Intellectual Property Code. In addition, Users recognise
that violation of copyright or performing rights (such as for example,
the reproduction, representation, provision or communication to the
public of works or objects protected by copyright or performing rights
without the authorisation of the holders of these rights) constitutes an
act of counterfeiting, punishable by civil and/or criminal penalties
(up to 3 years’ imprisonment and a fine of 300,000 euros). Users
recognise that piracy harms artistic creation.