Re: Who is Cturley2 ??

[apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu (ground.ecn AppleII Librarian)]

In article <3958d78d.329291610@news>,
Jeff Blakeney <CUTblakeney@home.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 06:01:52 GMT, "Adalbert Goertz"
><goertz@cyberspace.org> wrote:
>
>>I would trust him anyway. What do you  have to lose?
>
>Well, you could lose your ISP account, you could lose respect from

Then find another ISP.  Unfortunately, a US Federal Court recently (last
week?) dismissed an ISP from a lawsuit ruling that ISP's can not be held
criminally or civilly responsible for the content of their subscribers
files on their servers.  Individual subscribers can face legal action but
the ISP is not liable.  Since an ISP is not liable, more and more
ISP's will allow anything and have no incentive to drop subscribers.  

I hope Canada will be more responsible with having the ISP shoulder some
responsibility for their subscribers.  I fear the USA ISP's will become an
internet haven for the Porn/MP3/etc. sites.  I have no inkling what
effect this latest case will have on last months ruling of Judge Rakoff's
concerning the MP3 music files.  US Courts are anything but consistent :-)

  -Steve

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 --Steve  (apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu)