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From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
"Mere conduit" defense. (Please do not anyone mention "common carrier status" or the like, ISPs are _not_ common carriers.)
Do you think if the police found out child pr0n was being served from a starbux they wouldn't confiscate the equipment from that store?
Well, pursuant to the "mere conduit" defense, I believe (IANAL) a defensible case could be made that the (people operating) Tor nodes are not "servers" as that term is generally understood in the industry, in the same way that web browser/caches are not "copies" as IP law understands *that* term. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274