State Super-DMCA Too True

Mon Mar 31 23:46:47 UTC 2003

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 04:32:18PM -0600, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> 
> Thus spake "todd glassey" <todd.glassey at 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.

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