EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data not disclosed

Post by icebraining » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 11:39 PM UTC

kuschku wrote: post #143

icebraining wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Customers buying .de domains have to be, necessarily, German According to DENIC's TOS, the domain owner doesn't have to be German (as long as they appoint a Germany-based representative for receiving correspondence official and court correspondence, but that's not easyDNS' concern).

It’s hard to argue that you don’t cater to the german market if you market a product that explicitly requires a german representative.

Post by gnopgnip » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 12:31 AM UTC

la_barba wrote: post #168

stevekemp wrote: post #146

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I do photography as a hobby. When I reach the point where I wish to complain about unauthorized use of copyright images I do not want "credit", or images to be removed, I want damages. For some reason people think credit is sufficient to excuse bad behaviour, and removing images after they've profited from them with no additional recourse is fine. It rarely comes to the point of making a claim, just when people blate…

That is a fair point. Do you know what the law says if the assets were supplied by a third party, or were purchased from one of those stock image sites?

Post by mr_toad » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 1:06 AM UTC

ransom1538 wrote: post #96

cj wrote: post #58

I've been harrassed by law firms in connection with photograph copyright claims. In my case it was a law firm in France who also had a presence in the US. It was a minor claim (they demanded $500). We took the image down immediately, but they continued to demand their cash "settlement" with multiple letters over a year (1 letter every 1-2 months, each one with increasingly aggressive wording). I eventually got on the…

Basic company idea. 0) Purchase office in East Texas. 1) Hire a few young lawyers (having difficulty finding work), 2) scan for companies that have 1 round of series A funding, 3) scan their website for any off domain image, 4) scan their website for any SMS sending, 5) if anything is found - send scary overnight letters demanding 4-5k The worst thing that you can do to THIS business idea is to take the letter and th…

Post by mr_toad » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 1:22 AM UTC

datenwolf wrote: post #83

IANAL, but here's my assessment on this: First and foremost, as far as I know, a registrar disclosing customer data without a warrant would violate the law in Germany as well. For `.de`-Domains the holder information used to be publicly available, at the dismay of privacy activists; in the same way the ICANN wanted the same. Then GDPR came and pretty much put a legally binding end to this. And it comes down to this:…

Post by smnrchrds » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 2:31 AM UTC

wstuartcl wrote: post #157

FDSGSG wrote: post #84

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> we may also wildcard your DNS to localhost and set the TTL on your zone out to a year. You’ve been warned No, this is simply indefensible. There's simply no way you could ever excuse this. Suspending a customer domain is OK, this is not.

I read it as tongue in cheek (to emphasize DO NOT DROP YOUR ACTIVE DDOS ON OUR SERVERS) and not something they actually would execute. Has anyone ever seen them do anything like this?