# How to Delete Uploaded Files? **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Created:** [February 9, 2015, 7:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-delete-uploaded-files/25001 "2015-02-09T07:53:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 13
**Author:** ![downey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/downey/32/166878_2.png) [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2015, 9:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-delete-uploaded-files/25001/13 "2015-03-28T21:41:22Z")
> [@Mohammad](#): > > How does Discourse handles illegal hosting done by users using the PM system? What if a user uploads large files via PM and then links to it from an external source. Will cleanup task delete them or not? “Illegal” is going to depend on the jurisdiction. For example, in the United States, the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act provides safe harbor for service providers (such as someone running a Discourse site) against actions of their users. As long as the service provider responds to notice of infringing activity, **and can produce good records of what that user did or did not do** (emphasis hint for @codinghorror), and how they responded to that user and that user’s infringing content, then they are generally not liable for those actions. In other words, it may not (or may, depending on where you are) be the job of the service provider to police and snoop on its users’ activities. > **[Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_Liability_Limitation_Act)** > > The Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA) is United States federal law that creates a conditional 'safe harbor' for online service providers (OSP), a group which includes Internet service providers (ISP) and other Internet intermediaries, by shielding them for their own acts of direct copyright infringement (when they make unauthorized copies) as well as shielding them from potential secondary liability for the infringing acts of others. OCILLA was passed as a part of ... --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-delete-uploaded-files/25001)._