On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 04:32:18PM -0600, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
Thus spake "todd glassey" <todd.glassey@worldnet.att.net>
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.
And yet, if FedEx notices a package is ticking, they have the right to reject it without being held responsable for ones they don't catch. -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)