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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: State Super-DMCA Too True
Thus spake "todd glassey" <[email protected]> > Yes but this is specific to the argument on whether an ISP > should be accountable for what people do with its bandwidth > and what I think is ultimately going to happen is that these > laws are going to be put in place and as part of enforcing > these there will be some arrests. If you ship pot via FedEx, does the delivery guy go to jail too? No. If you make obscene phone calls, does the operator go to jail too? No. Common carrier status exists for this very reason. Unfortunately, it probably means we'll have to stop filtering things like spam and DoS, since filtering on content inherently violates common carrier protection -- see the smut suit against AOL a few years ago. S Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking
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