offshore hosting + 2257 + us webmasters

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Originally Posted by neags78805

:kitten: I caught just a minimal verbage of these new 2257 regulations but one thing that did catch my eye was this: "Hosting Companies are not reasonably held responsible for their clients content in which they do not actively monitor." I take this to mean that if a hosting company has and does pursue illegal content on client sites, and has shown an enforcement of TOS, this would mean the hosting company does or would have knowledge. Actively enforcing your TOS would set a precedence. This to me says that Hosting Co's are in the clear with reguard to what their clients comply with. :egg:

BTW... Someone give me the link to the new 2257 Regs so I can read... My palms have been sweating all day and I been looking out the front door! LOL (Catching up in the 12th hour!)

Exactly

Twenty-four commenters commented that the exclusion of providers of web-hosting services who do not manage the content of the site or service is vague and may be under-inclusive because some services manage or control certain website content, e.g., advertisements, but not the sexually explicit content. According to the commenters, it is similarly unclear whether editing content only for copyright infringement purposes would constitute control of content. The Department adopts this comment. The exclusion of providers of web- hosting services who reasonably cannot manage the content of the site will be clarified to exclude providers of web-hosting services who reasonably cannot manage the sexually explicit content of the site (for either technical or contractual reasons).

while this is a grey area it does not mention anywhere that they have the authority to obtain infor directly from the host...