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> Even if you just hosted audio

Absolute worst case! You're going to end up DMCA'd by the entire music industry.

> It's no longer 1991, when you could assume that such people wouldn't find you.

Even back in the nineties, there was abuse .. but the internet was so much smaller, and it was possible to manually ban them. Except on USENET. The labour of dealing with spam fell to a small number of people, one of whom wrote this astonishing rant: https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/writing/rant.html

(and partly disowned it, but I think he was right first time)



> Absolute worst case! You're going to end up DMCA'd by the entire music industry.

You'll even get DMCA'd for your own content!

In late 2018, musician TheFatRat had one of his YouTube videos taken down due to a DMCA report: https://twitter.com/thisisthefatrat/status/10729330469391933...

Herman Li, the lead guitarist for Dragonforce, had his Twitch account suspended due to supposed DMCA violations because he played his own music on stream: https://www.kotaku.com.au/2020/10/twitch-dragonforce-herman-...




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