Subject: Re: Who is Cturley2 ?? Path: lobby!newstf02.news.aol.com!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!dfw-peer.news.verio.net!ord-feed.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!news.uiowa.edu!news1.icaen!ground.ecn.uiowa.edu!apple2pd From: apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu (ground.ecn AppleII Librarian) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Date: 27 Jun 2000 21:24:23 GMT Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa Lines: 29 Message-ID: <8jb627$13j$1@server05.icaen.uiowa.edu> References: <00059faa719-522-1488@www.goblinsreach.org> <3958d78d.329291610@news> NNTP-Posting-Host: ground.ecn.uiowa.edu In article <3958d78d.329291610@news>, Jeff Blakeney wrote: >On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 06:01:52 GMT, "Adalbert Goertz" > 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 -- --Steve (apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu)