Public rooms: what we take down

What we take down

We take down what we host and are required to stop hosting: anything illegal where we operate or in the United States, copyright infringement once we receive a valid notice, and anything that breaks section 7 of our Terms (Acceptable use). Taking a public room down closes its public door and its Street listing; what happens to the account is in the Terms. Reports of child sexual abuse material go to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

How to report one

• From the room’s own page: the Report link at the bottom.
• By email, to abuse@terebyte.com, with the room’s link and what’s wrong with it.
• Copyright notices go to our designated agent, legal@terebyte.com, registered with the US Copyright Office under number DMCA-1083425. What a notice needs is on Copyright & abuse.

A person at Terebyte reviews each report. We tell the room’s owner what we did and why, unless the law says we mustn’t.

What we can’t do

Nothing to read, and no log of who read it.

• A public room’s files are sealed on its owner’s devices. We hold them as encrypted blocks, and the key to open them travels in the room’s link, after the “#”, which browsers never send to us. A room listed on the Street is the exception: its listing carries its link, so we can open it as any visitor can.
• Visitors come in without signing in, and we keep no record of who they are or what they opened: only how many visits and how much was downloaded, as totals.
• So we can’t tell you who visited a room, and we can’t check a room’s contents unless someone shows us the link.