Op 19-10-2017 om 17:28 schreef Michael Hekeler: >> Not at all. Some hosting companies specific mention it. > Interesting. > I didn´t knew.. > > >> The company I mention above is also part of EU, I believe. > Germany (Hetzner) is > Iceland (1984) is not > > >> quoting myself, the answer is in the beginning of this email: >> ".... >> expect the worst in torrent-related matters." > Ah, okay - I have not seen this. > > Torrents are not basically illegal. So no problem with the hosters. > > But of course you should not host something like pirate bay in EU. And > also better to stay away from the non-EU-members in europe (like swiss, > monaco, moldova...)
Given the mention of DMCA, chances are very high that illegal torrents are being referred to. That means that one is only really safe in Switzerland (where privacy laws really protects the (torrent) users) or Iceland. The EU countries, and more specifically Germany, The Netherlands and France follow a strict policy. I have no reason to assume that matters are different in the other EU countries, although there are a lot of bullet proof hosters in Romania and Bulgaria, but one really does not want to be associated with that. Bullet proof hosting is associated with criminal activities. Especially Switzerland is probably the best choice (good interconnections, low latency). Prices for VPS's are high though, and I do not know the situation with OpenBSD hosting.
