ISPs now responsible for Pirated Material
--- begin forwarded text X-Authentication-Warning: lpma.la-ma.org: majordom set sender to owner-general@la-ma.org using -f X-Sender: dkrick@pobox3.bbn.com Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 07:29:38 -0500 To: general@la-ma.org From: Doug Krick <dkrick@bbnplanet.com> Subject: ISPs now responsible for Pirated Material Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-general@la-ma.org Precedence: bulk http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,28357,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh Summary: IF a local ISP doesn't register with the goverment, per a new law Clinton signed this week, the ISP can be held legally responsible for any pirated material that may be on their site. Doug --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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Summary: IF a local ISP doesn't register with the goverment, per a new law Clinton signed this week, the ISP can be held legally responsible for any pirated material that may be on their site.
Doug
"Register Communists -- Not ISPs" DCF
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 07:29:38 -0500 To: general@la-ma.org From: Doug Krick <dkrick@bbnplanet.com> Subject: ISPs now responsible for Pirated Material Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-general@la-ma.org Precedence: bulk
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Summary: IF a local ISP doesn't register with the goverment, per a new law Clinton signed this week, the ISP can be held legally responsible for any pirated material that may be on their site.
Not really a problem. Its one thing to require a contact person. It's quite another to get an ISP to provide sufficient resources to adequately police its feed. In many of the Usenet .warez. groups, for example, postings expire after only a few hours/days. By the time action is taken its gone anyway. The ISPs made a very good argument, in the SC CDA hearings, that policing their feeds and access was impractical. Sounds like this could be pretty much the same problem. I wonder how Eternity servers, using Usenet references, would be treated under these regs? --Steve
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