Eric, Not really. The customer provides the content on its own servers. The CDN simply redistributes the content via temporary caching. It’s not a web hosting provider. The CDN _customer_ hosts the content.
-mel beckman On Aug 5, 2019, at 11:09 PM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com<mailto:eric.kuh...@gmail.com>> wrote: A CDN is a hosting company. It is the logical continuation and evolution of what an httpd hosting/server colo company was twenty years ago, but with more geographical scale and a great deal more automation tools. I have never in my life seen a medium to large-sized hosting company that didn't have a ToS reserving the right to discontinue service at any time for arbitrary reasons. On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 7:28 PM Mel Beckman <m...@beckman.org<mailto:m...@beckman.org>> wrote: Valdis, A CDN is very much an ISP. It is providing transport for its customers from arbitrary Internet destinations, to the customer’s content. The caching done by a CDN is incidental to this transport, in accordance with the DMCA. The alternative is that you believe CDNs are not protected by safe Harbor. Is that the case? -mel via cell > On Aug 5, 2019, at 4:02 PM, Valdis Klētnieks > <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu<mailto:valdis.kletni...@vt.edu>> wrote: > > On Mon, 05 Aug 2019 20:40:43 -0000, Mel Beckman said: >> The key misunderstanding on your part is the phrase “on your servers”. ISPs >> acting as conduits do not, by definition (in the DMCA), store anything on >> servers. > > Note that ISPs whose business is 100% "acting as conduits" are in the > minority. > > Hint: The DMCA has the text about data stored on ISP servers because many > ISPs > aren't mere conduits. And this thread got started regarding a CDN, which is > very much > all about storing data on servers..... >
