You should be sending that fee to the organization requesting the DCMA takedown. Your time is not free, nor has the customer been afforded due process for the allegation(s).
On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Jeremy <jeremysmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > What do you thing about charging a fee every time that a customer gets a > DMCA takedown notice. These notices take time to track down and follow up > on. If we charged $20 every time it would make it not really worth it to > pirate that $10 movie. I would think that it should be legal, so long as we > add it to our customer agreement. Anyone ever thought about this? Right > now we pass on 5 of them and then make them find a new provider. It seems > like they would be less likely to hit 5 if they had to pay $20 for each one. > We really don't want these guys on our network anyway, so no sweat if they > just cancel. Is anyone out there charging customers a fee for these? I > know most of you just ignore them, but we like passing them on, as it lowers > our overall usage.
