On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 05:15:05PM -0500, Nathan J. Mehl wrote:
If there is any actual operational relevance to this discussion, it is this: does accepting a CleanNews feed actually, as Karl suggest, provide any legal protection to the subscriber site when dealing with accusations of transiting illegal or copyrighted material? I strongly suspect that the answer is "Not even slightly", and urge that ISP news administrators talk long and hard with their corporate counsel before implementing this. It is possible, depending on whether you present yourself as a carrier service, that this could even increase your liability.
Uh, no. Usenet is NOT a carrier service. Its just not. You can try to claim that it is, but I suspect that we'll find out shortly whether there is any chance in hell of that succeeding - coming out of New York State. One key when talking to lawyers, though, is to tell them the truth about what you do and what you need to do in order to implement something. Its very easy to get your shorts in a knot if you play coy with your counsel. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) http://www.mcs.net/~karl I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so give up now on trying to associate my words with any particular organization.