A CDN is a hosting company. It is the logical continuation and evolution of what an httpd hosting/server colo company was twenty years ago, but with more geographical scale and a great deal more automation tools.
I have never in my life seen a medium to large-sized hosting company that didn't have a ToS reserving the right to discontinue service at any time for arbitrary reasons. On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 7:28 PM Mel Beckman <m...@beckman.org> wrote: > 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..... > > >
