Legal Question in Intellectual Property in California
I'm planning on to start a streaming media site containing pirated files where it is hosted by Laos hosting provider. Acknowledging the fact that Laos currently does not have any copyright laws and also does not cooperate with the United States, I am legally allowed to do this without being sued. In addition to avoid domain seizure by the U.S, the domain ending by .la rather than .com is a Laos country domain. If hosting provider containing most of my sites' illegal files, will the police raid their servers and sue them rather than me? I do not reside in Laos, rather in North America.
With the biggest infamous file-sharing site, ThePirateBay.se has been raided by Sweden police for at least 3 times, why hasn't it been shut down? Actually, it did shut down, but the site came back in about 72 hours after Swedish police's confiscating 3 servers. I want to do the same website as them, but in streaming file-sharing model.
Also, the Iran's laws have no relations whatsoever with the U.S according to this link. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-United_States_copyright_relations)
Would it be rather safe to host in this country?
Do you have any advice on this?
I appreciate in advance your response.
2 Answers from Attorneys
I believe the legality of any operation conducted via the Internet is determined by the laws of the jurisdiction where the hand guides the mouse, not where servers are located. Beyond that, I don't think it's appropriate for lawyers to provide coaching on tricky ways to avoid the law and scam someone out of their intellectual property.
My advice is simple: abandon this plan. If you are caught operating the site, you will be held liable for copyright infringement. It will not matter where the site is located. Even if the federal authorities could not go after anything in Laos, they certainly go after everything here in the US to prevent or hobble the operation of that site.
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