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Originally Posted by directfiesta
.. so you would comply if a hosting company asked the same ...
After all , they are also (making you money) ...
In Canada, if I would comply, I would be going to jail ... or at least be prosecuted for violation of privacy law ...
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Hosting companies walk a very fine line. Hosting companies do exercise a minimal amount of content editing. They can tell you what you can and cannot have on their servers... the servers are owned and operated by the hosting company. If a hosting company knowingly lets a client use their server for illegal purposes, they too can be held responsible. In fact there was a data center raid just a couple months back. Of course Canadian and American laws are different, but I'm having a very difficult time believing that if the Canadian authorities found illegal content or illegal activities on a Canadian-based web host that the web host would not suffer any repercussions at all. Bare minimum, hardware would be confiscated.
Illegal activity is a domino effect. Anyone surrounding it can fall. It isn't unreasonable for a business to take precautions to make sure that they are not involved with a "criminal enterprise."
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