{"id":247321,"date":"2018-02-02T10:31:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T08:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=247321"},"modified":"2018-02-02T10:32:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T08:32:30","slug":"cloudflare-liable-for-pirate-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/247321-cloudflare-liable-for-pirate-sites.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cloudflare liable for pirate sites&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALS Scan has argued to a Californian court that Cloudflare must be held liable for the copyright infringements of its customers, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/cloudflare-is-liable-for-pirate-sites-and-has-no-safe-harbor-publisher-says-180201\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TorrentFreak reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Cloudflare counts The Pirate Bay among its clients, and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/177019-cloudflare-faces-lawsuit-from-porn-site-als-scan-for-helping-pirate-sites.html\">ALS Scan first filed the lawsuit<\/a><\/strong> in August 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The adult content publisher asked for partial summary judgement in the case, saying that Cloudflare aids pirates and should not qualify for &#8220;safe harbour&#8221; protection.<\/p>\n<p>ALS Scan also argued that Cloudflare operates differently to an ISP and should not be entitled to DMCA protection, because it is\u00a0a &#8220;smart system&#8221; which modifies content &#8211; instead of acting as a &#8220;dumb pipe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even if safe harbour protections apply to Cloudflare, it has lost them by not implementing a\u00a0reasonable policy around copyright infringement, including termination of repeat offenders, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The case is expected to continue with a counter from Cloudflare.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/240750-cloudflare-ceo-fighting-for-free-speech.html\">Cloudflare CEO fighting for free speech<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALS Scan has argued that Cloudflare must be held liable for copyright infringements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":230835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[29694,2142,21365],"class_list":["post-247321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-cloudflare","tag-copyright-infringement","tag-digital-millennium-copyright-act-dmca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247367,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247321\/revisions\/247367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}