(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A site that describes itself as a website for “fresh information about new scene releases and also other interesting software and tech news” has been shut down by its Web host due to a copyright complaint.
Online download blog RLSLOG posted an announcement to the now offline site that reads: “Shut down again, although we never hosted any files or copyrighted data on our server. Our site is strictly informative.” While the site does not specifically host copyrighted material, its editors post links to new content, often pirated material.
According to a Monday report from file-sharing news site TorrentFreak, RLSLOG was pulled offline in April when Universal Music complained. The site subsequently moved to the Netherlands, where it was hosted until the Dutch host said the German government and a local anti-piracy organization complained about the site. The actual complaints were never made available to RLSLOG.
Last week, it was made known that six websites providing links to free comic books and other copyrighted material were the subject of a federal lawsuit, contending that they violated federal copyright laws by letting visitors view the content for free without permission from the publishers or authors.
It appears that there is confusion among the users of these websites as to whether they are legal, especially when there are claims that they are merely providing links to externally hosted material. These sites, which include torrent search engines such as isoHunt and The Pirate Bay, fall under the “Intentional Inducement of Copyright Infringements Act of 2004″ and other laws, which punishes them for ultimately depending upon copyright infringement for their commercial viability.
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