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Can RIAA Lawsuits be Blocked by Routers?
Chris Frank asks: "With the RIAA stepping up its pressure on internet sharers, what is the legal status of people behind apartment routers? With no logging of who is moving what who can the RIAA prosecute when it tracks a shared file back to that specific shared internet account? I would imagine that many Slashdot readers are behind routers that hold all of their internal IPs private to the outside world. Is the bill payer responsible for all of the users of that router? How can a person be held accountable for the actions of others, especially when there is no proof of who did what?"
Most ISPs Terms of Service agree that the payer is responsible for any data sent over the service. Many home ISPs also stipulate that the service is only for the use of the customer, and they cannot resell or give away the service.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
Somebody please post a link to that picture with the pill-people chasing the kitten. I laugh every time I see that!
The original quote: Every time you masturbate, God kills a kitten. Please think of the kittens
More than enough BS
Pill people? That's Domo-Kun.
Please get off the Internet.
http://www.hosstyle.com/Goofy%20shit/images/godkil ls.jpg
That's from a Fark Photoshop contest. It includes several common fark themes. Domo-kun, the cliche kitty, and masterbation/sex.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
The original link I wanted to show: Full text of DMCA legislation
I also found this: DMCA Summary (i.e. written in plain English) Look at page 8. Specifically, Title II Section 512. There are provisions there for ISPs. This section was added so that ISPs should not be held liable to what their users are doing. You are required, once you receive a subpoena, to reveal the identity of the person in question. However, this can be impossible if you run a wireless AP and don't log MACs or you can even claim that the person was using a fake MAC. In any case, you have a lot of leeway.
Anyone hit by the RIAA extortion lawsuit should claim ISP rights!
The DMCA isn't the only four-letter-acronym'ed law that pisses all over our constitution, as the Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act (RAVE) act demonstrates. More information here emdef.org
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