• pressanykeynow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    16 days ago

    Well it’s obvious that the registrar is to blame. Anyone can send emails requesting the takedown. The registrar shouldn’t do it. Are Funko and Brandshield scummy? Yes, but they are not who took down itch, it was the registrar. Also Funko calling anyone’s mother is fucked up.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      16 days ago

      The West and the US in particular keep inching closer to the ISPs having legal responsibility for not shutting stuff down in copyright cases.(link)

      ISPs increasingly do not have a choice. They can nuke a customer or risk going to court and losing money.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        5·
        16 days ago

        There is a minimum amount of time allowable for Investigations though. It’s not very long and there is a very good argument it should be longer, but the registrar didn’t even take the time to look into the case. Obviously they didn’t, because otherwise it wouldn’t have done anything.

        • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          16 days ago

          That’s not even in their calculation for most of their customers. They aren’t going to eat a court case if they don’t have to and every refusal risks a court case. A customer has to be truly large to actually be defended by their ISP.

          • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
            3·
            16 days ago

            They wouldn’t get a court case over this. Firstly because registrars are not responsible for the content on their websites, And social media sites and other sites that allow users to post-content to them are themselves not directly responsible for the content users choose to post.

            The appropriate action for a registrar is to contact the owner of the website in question, If it is getting close to the allotted time and they haven’t had a response then they take the website down. All allowable under the law without getting sued.

            This registrar didn’t even bother trying to contact the site, they did not do a totally automatable and essentially free action, simply because they couldn’t be bothered.

            • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              16 days ago

              In the US record companies are busy making everyone responsible via court cases. That’s the problem.