A precise definition. The DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 USC §512) is a United States federal statute. It has no extraterritorial force. Hosts whose corporate entity and physical infrastructure sit outside US jurisdiction are not bound by it — DMCA take-down notices that arrive in their inbox have the same legal weight as a strongly-worded email. Cryptoservers is incorporated in Saint Kitts and Nevis, with datacenters in Iceland, the Netherlands, Romania and Switzerland; we do not honour DMCA notices because they have no operative effect over our infrastructure. That does not mean copyright is unenforceable — it means takedown is routed through local court process, not a private letter.
Не как маркетинговая позиция — как юридическая реальность. Закон попросту не дотягивается до нашей инфраструктуры.
The DMCA is codified at 17 USC §512 as part of US copyright law. Section 512(c), the safe-harbour provision, conditions a US online-service-provider's liability shield on a notice-and-takedown procedure. The statutory text addresses "service providers" as defined in §512(k), and the enforcement mechanism — the §512(j) injunctive-relief framework — sits inside the United States federal courts.
None of those mechanisms have force outside the United States. A foreign court will not enforce a US copyright statute as a free-standing cause of action; bilateral instruments like the Berne Convention oblige member states to <em>protect copyright</em>, not to import US procedural rules. As a Nevisian company with infrastructure in Iceland, the Netherlands, Romania and Switzerland, we sit outside the reach of §512 entirely.
Practically: every week the abuse mailbox receives DMCA notices. They are auto-classified, the customer is informed (so they can comment if they wish), and the content remains up. We do not act on them because we have no statutory obligation to and because doing so on a private letter would amount to private censorship without due process. That is not a service we offer.
"The DMCA is a creature of US federal law. Its notice-and-takedown procedure operates within the framework of US courts. It is not an international treaty and it does not bind foreign service providers." — common reading of §512 in international IP scholarship; see e.g. Cornell LII annotations.
Cryptoservers не «над законом», и мы никогда этого не утверждали. Существует пять категорий правовых процедур, которым мы обязаны подчиняться — все они уже DMCA.
A binding order of the kind above gets a documented response. Our <a href="/ru/canary/">warrant canary</a> publishes the count of orders honoured per quarter (and signals if a US, Five-Eyes or other foreign-jurisdiction order has ever been complied with — by going un-signed if so).
Every country has some intermediary-liability framework for copyright. They differ in whether a private notice triggers takedown, or whether a court order is required. This table lays out the five jurisdictions touching our infrastructure (plus the US for comparison).
| Юрисдикция | Эквивалентный закон | Триггер удаления | Требование хранения | Статус для Cryptoservers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Kitts & Nevis | Copyright Act, Cap 18.08; Electronic Transactions Act, Cap 4.21 | Судебное постановление | Нет для ISP/хостов | Обязательно (корпоративная регистрация) |
| Iceland (IS) | Act on Electronic Commerce no. 30/2002; IMMI framework | Судебное постановление | Ограничено; отменено решением ЕС | Обязательно (датацентр) |
| Netherlands (NL) | EU eCommerce Directive Art 14; DSA Art 6 (Reg 2022/2065) | Судебное постановление или фактическое знание о незаконности | Не предписано | Обязательно (датацентр) |
| Romania (RO) | Law no. 365/2002 (eCommerce); DSA | Судебное постановление | Нет с момента решения 2014 года | Обязательно (датацентр) |
| Switzerland (CH) | ZGB Art 28a; URG (Copyright Act); FADP | Судебное постановление | Нет для хостов (BÜPF исключает) | Обязательно (датацентр) |
| United States (US) | 17 USC §512 (DMCA) | Частное уведомление (суд не требуется) | Не предписано | Необязательно (нет присутствия в США) |
The pattern is consistent: every jurisdiction we operate in requires a court order or its equivalent ("actual knowledge" under the eCommerce Directive — interpreted by Dutch and German case law as effectively requiring a court adjudication for ambiguous claims). The United States is the outlier with its private-notice trigger; we are the outlier in not being subject to it.
Честный раздел. Путать «игнорирование DMCA» с «беззаконием» опасно — люди предполагают, что мы убежище для того, для чего мы решительно не убежище.
Уголовное право применяется независимо. Saint Kitts and Nevis, Iceland, the Netherlands, Romania and Switzerland all criminalise the same core categories: child sexual abuse material, credible threats, fraud, money-laundering, terrorism financing. None of that becomes legal because the DMCA does not reach us. If your business is in those categories, no offshore host should sell you service — including us.
Пользователи в DMCA-юрисдикциях всё равно получают уведомления напрямую. A US-resident user accessing our VPS may see DMCA notices arrive at their home ISP, naming the user's home IP for the access traffic. The notice does not reach Cryptoservers, but it does reach the user. EU users may face Article 14 routing letters from their own ISPs. Operating an ID-tied home connection while running a service that draws DMCA fire is its own threat model, separate from where the VPS lives.
Ответственность посредников — движущаяся цель. The EU Digital Services Act (effective 2024 for VLOPs, 2024 for general intermediaries) tightened notice-and-action rules, increased transparency-reporting obligations, and gave national regulators more enforcement teeth. Romania's DNSC and the Dutch ACM now have direct supervisory authority over hosts in their jurisdictions. We comply with DSA reporting; that compliance does not change our practical position on private DMCA letters but it does add procedural overhead we now meet.
«Игнорирование DMCA» ≠ «bulletproof». Bulletproof hosting is a black-market term for hosts who knowingly accept obvious criminal customers. We are emphatically not bulletproof, and conflating the terms damages the legitimate use case (journalism, activism, security research, archival, censorship-circumvention).
Восемь самых частых вопросов покупателей и журналистов о свойстве «DMCA-ignored» и о том, что оно значит на практике.
Первичные источники:
17 USC §512 — DMCA (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
EU eCommerce Directive 2000/31/EC, Article 14
Digital Services Act — Regulation (EU) 2022/2065
Romania Constitutional Court Decision no. 440/2014 (data retention)
Iceland — IMMI (Icelandic Modern Media Initiative)
Wikipedia — Digital Millennium Copyright Act
EFF — DMCA issue archive
Пять офшорных юрисдикций, никакого рычага DMCA, чекаут только в крипте, без KYC. Страна выбирается при развёртывании.