@l0calh0st
Yes, you are absolutely right, thank you. But it always come down to which one is that "something serious" complain that will force to comply. You see, at this moment I am doing just fine with onshore VPS, in fact I have two: one USA and one in EU (not ecatel tho). But DMCA senders, when realized that their initial complaints get disregarded even by ISP, started simply spamming - they used to send 1 email per week or two, now they just send almost identical messages every day and the service provider get nervous (because, by some weird logic, 10 identical DMCA emails is 10x times more serious).
What complaint is considered serious and what is not, when they all are using same DMCA pattern? There is no way all those small companies will hire a real lawyer and send him to another country just to bring the site down, but let's be realistic, the hoster doesn't care about it, and I can't blame them because, from their point of view, risk is not worth it.
And its easy for a huge multi-niche forum to comply with all takedown notices, you delete 10 movies but you still have all the music, games, whatever else. But when its a niche related forum/site, easier just to close it, because one or two complains can ask for hundreds of threads to be deleted.
I am willing to sacrifice all the benefits of US/Netherlands datacenter for a good DMCA handling, but sadly there seems to be no such services for porn sites (until Ukraine/Russia allow to host porn materials)
They know all the tricks, and they certainly know that every hosting provider will get tired of notices eventually.
So true!
