In article <cistron.1100797360.3557.15.camel@firenze.zurich.ibm.com>, Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org> wrote:

On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 16:40 +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

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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).

Thus... say a newsserver full of illegal stuff is quite illegal? Or that other nice example 'proxy servers', they store the data and then relay it. A router could be said to 'store' the data also (in registers for like a zillionth microsecond ;) and

In general, store-and-forward and caching are allowed and not illegal. Yet. Mike.