online-piracy data-storage data-ownership
Storing pirated data online who is responsible?
<p>If I were to set up an online storage company and sell GB/TB who would be responsible for my customers uploading pirated/illegal data on my storage servers? Would declaring in the  terms and conditions that is definitely against the rules enough?</p>

<p>Assuming the data is completely private  and only available to the custom who uploaded it. </p>

<p>How do companies like Dropbox handle it? </p>

<p>Thanks </p>

<p>If you have no knowledge and can't possibly have knowledge because the data is totally private, you should fall into the safe harbor protection of 17 U.S. Code § 512 - Limitations on liability relating to material online. </p>

<p>See this answer here which covers a lot of the information you are looking for: <a href="https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/4119/legality-of-proxy-sites-and-dmca">Legality of Proxy sites and DMCA</a></p>
