DMCA & copyright.
Where NordBastion stands on copyright takedown notices. The short answer: we are infrastructure, not an arbiter — and this page explains exactly what that means.
NordBastion rents servers; it does not host content on anyone’s behalf. We do not action copyright or DMCA-style takedown notices — we will not suspend a server, pull content, or hand over customer details on the strength of a complaint. A copyright dispute belongs between the rightsholder and the customer.
There is no takedown form on this page. That is deliberate, and the clauses below explain why — and what every side can actually do.
“DMCA” here means copyright demands in general
The DMCA is a piece of United States law. NordBastion OÜ is registered in Estonia and operates from Nordic jurisdictions — it is not a US service, and US statute does not govern it.
But “DMCA notice” has become shorthand, everywhere, for a copyright takedown demand. So this page uses the word in that everyday sense, and it covers our position on copyright demands of every flavour — wherever they come from.
Our position
NordBastion provides infrastructure. We rent compute, storage and network capacity — we do not curate, publish, or host content on a customer’s behalf the way a platform does.
We are not in a position to adjudicate a copyright dispute, and we do not. We do not action copyright takedown notices: we will not suspend or wipe a server, we will not forward a notice as leverage, and we will not disclose customer details, on the strength of a complaint alone.
Why we take this position
A copyright notice is an assertion, not a judgment. Acting on assertion alone would make the host judge and executioner over a dispute it cannot see the full picture of — and that mechanism has been abused, everywhere, as a censorship tool against speech that has nothing to do with copyright.
We will not be that lever. The right place to resolve a copyright claim is between the rightsholder and the customer, and — where it comes to that — in a court that can actually weigh both sides.
What a rightsholder can do
If you hold a copyright and believe a NordBastion customer is infringing it, you have real options — they just do not run through us as a shortcut:
- — Contact the operator of the server or service directly. The content you are concerned about will have its own publisher and its own contact path — that is who can act on it.
- — Pursue the claim through the courts of the jurisdiction that applies. An assertion and a judgment are different things — and we treat them differently.
- — A valid, binding order from a court of competent jurisdiction is not a notice — it is legal process, and it is handled as such. How we receive, review and respond to genuine legal process is set out in the Transparency report and the Jurisdiction page.
Customer responsibility
If you run servers here, you are responsible for your own compliance with the copyright law of the jurisdictions that apply to you. We do not pre-screen what you run, and we will not police it for you.
That is freedom, not cover. “The host did not stop me” has never been a legal defence — what you publish is yours to answer for.
What this is not a shield for
This page is about copyright. It is not, and never will be, a shield for the one thing NordBastion does act on.
Child sexual abuse material is not a copyright question. It is governed entirely by the Acceptable Use policy, it is the single case where a server is terminated outright, and it is the single case where a valid seizure is met with cooperation rather than resistance. Do not confuse the two.
Notices come. We stay steady.
This position is part of a larger one. The pages below are the rest of where the line sits — and where it does not.