Valdis, A CDN is very much an ISP. It is providing transport for its customers from arbitrary Internet destinations, to the customer’s content. The caching done by a CDN is incidental to this transport, in accordance with the DMCA.
The alternative is that you believe CDNs are not protected by safe Harbor. Is that the case? -mel via cell > On Aug 5, 2019, at 4:02 PM, Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: > > On Mon, 05 Aug 2019 20:40:43 -0000, Mel Beckman said: >> The key misunderstanding on your part is the phrase “on your servers”. ISPs >> acting as conduits do not, by definition (in the DMCA), store anything on >> servers. > > Note that ISPs whose business is 100% "acting as conduits" are in the > minority. > > Hint: The DMCA has the text about data stored on ISP servers because many > ISPs > aren't mere conduits. And this thread got started regarding a CDN, which is > very much > all about storing data on servers..... >
