Quote Originally Posted by dr0ax View Post
Your host will send you an email (they can view which sites are hosted through out their network. They'll shut your ass down if you do not respond to a notice. Doesnt even matter if its one of those so-called rouge 'NO DMCA HOST'), so unfortunately even though you sound like you know what you're talking about - You really dont.

There is no way in hell you'll make a streaming site and not take any heat from it. In the beginning things might be smooth sailing as far as legal problems, but after a few short weeks (or months because its likely you are incapable of making a large site if you have to make a thread like this within a short time span), the 'wrong' people will find your site, see that they, or a 'client' of their's content is being made available without their authorization, and thats where all the *fun* begins!
Hosting in Ukraine, Russia / Switzerland on a warez linking site is fine. Russia only get pissed off if you share Russian files - as they have their own copyright laws they do not respect outside copyright laws. Yes, they ofcause will forward the DMCA notice to you. Who cares? They don't... DMCA is an american law.

I said "To get them off your ass simply do not offer a way to contact you - Email etc.", if you read my steps you'd understand that even your host provider wouldn't have a way to contact you. All that is required is a little research into the countries history (for example; the netherlands would be a rubbish place to host a warez site thesedays).

Yes... it will be harder for a large site, but if you're willing to give your money and time into the project it wont be a problem - cluster servers in multiple datacenters - when one is down - it will stay up. ThePirateBay manages just fine - even though they do not keep their details private. Now they have made a fake sale - to a company in Seychelles. Seychelles doesn't give out company details - so the real owner of TPB is safe / hidden. The original owners claim to only work on the script of the site and do not own it. (I'd go into more detail about this but if you're truely interested I'm sure you'll just Google it..)

P.S. "even though you sound like you know what you're talking about", nobody can claim they know what they are talking about. I was merly saying the tactics that I learnt from my own experiences - as that's how people learn. :-\