18 Nov
2004
18 Nov
'04
11:40 a.m.
In article <cistron.1100794375.3557.3.camel@firenze.zurich.ibm.com>, Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org> wrote:
The business case of about 80% of the ISP's is Pr0n & W4R3z (or what spelling is 'in' this year?)
But.... it is not illegal to make adverts for say "Downloading the newest movies over a cool 8mbit DSL line". But downloading it itself is of course. Might be analogous to providing a busservice to the crack dealers mansion.
[OT] That depends on the jurisdiction. In many parts of the world, downloading is NOT illegal. But making copyrighted files available for download is illegal (without the proper autorization, ofcourse). Mike.