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Originally Posted by Mutt
http://www.oron.com and from what I read they own http://www.forumophilia.com - which if it can be proven totally exposes them as more than a 'service provider' with no safe harbor protection.
i have been sending this host the same DMCA takedown request email written by a top attorney that I send to Hotfile, Rapidshare etc and they do delete the files at least - Oron.com ignores them, their hosting company Leaseweb is Dutch and notorious for not giving a fuck about copyright infringement complaints. GlobalCrossing the upstream provider does nothing. I've sent abuse complaints to Paypal who also make you jump through hoops just to file a copyright infringement complaint.
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Oron has been pain in the ass to deal with awhile back. But recently they do remove everything we send them no questions asked. I remember a couple of months ago they asked for some kind of verification which we did, and that was it. No other problems.
Probably they like your content more and do not want it removed from their servers
But anyway, unanswered DMCA is a strong card, you can play it nicely. They're not durt poor studs you can stumble upon easily when sueing torrent users. They do have money, and they do have US presence (through paypal at the very least). Nice chunk of cash on the table for you. Just make sure to register your works with the US copyright office (if not done already), after that you can get statutory damages awarded to you by US courts (HUGE ones), and then go on to collect (freeze their paypal if necessary, or any other of their US assets if they have any). I single unanswered DMCA with a mere hundred links in it can get you MILLIONS.