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No, I haven't heard of anyone being criminally charged for ping, but I have known someone whose ISP cut them off and he had to go through an onerous process to get service restored. I've also heard of people that use EC2 instances and get their AWS account terminated.

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AWS is also overzealous about DMCA notices. If you go to other providers like Scaleway, they'll forward any abuse complaints but you don't have to do anything about them.

Hadn't heard of Scaleway before, but their prices look very reasonable! Are you a customer of theirs? Any issues with reliability?

I don't use Scaleway or Online.net, as they're known for ignoring abuse reports. Other hosts like OVH tend to forward abuse reports and deal with repeat offenders, a good middle ground between AWS's draconian policies and Scaleway's.

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