What do SBC DSL customers pay for? Is it the 5 free email accounts or the 10MB free web space? No, those are free. They pay for the telecommunications service that connects them to the internet. So SBC is excluded from being able to sue spammers by this law.
But that's just a misuse of the word free - what they mean is 'inclusive 5 email accounts' and 'inclusive 10MB free web space'
Leaving it to the Courts?
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Once again its a situation of legislation giving the very minimum bare bones of something, and leaving it for the courts to decide what it actually means. It a terrible injustice to legal certainty where test cases are needed to see just what legislation *actually* means
I know the situation in the UK is that an ISP and even newsagents/magazine stands can be sued for distributing defamatory material - even if they have absolutly nothing to do with the publication or person who said it.
I guess the argument here would be that the ISP are allowing people to distribute copyrighted material, rather then encouraging them to make copies in the first place.
Lovely, 17m to help educate the people of europe about computer security problems, except that most of that will be swallowed up in translation costs for all the different european languages...
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What do SBC DSL customers pay for? Is it the 5 free email accounts or the 10MB free web space? No, those are free. They pay for the telecommunications service that connects them to the internet. So SBC is excluded from being able to sue spammers by this law.
But that's just a misuse of the word free - what they mean is 'inclusive 5 email accounts' and 'inclusive 10MB free web space'
Once again its a situation of legislation giving the very minimum bare bones of something, and leaving it for the courts to decide what it actually means. It a terrible injustice to legal certainty where test cases are needed to see just what legislation *actually* means
90% return rate on the support line - doesn't that just mean no one can figure out how to work the thing?! ;)
I know the situation in the UK is that an ISP and even newsagents/magazine stands can be sued for distributing defamatory material - even if they have absolutly nothing to do with the publication or person who said it.
I guess the argument here would be that the ISP are allowing people to distribute copyrighted material, rather then encouraging them to make copies in the first place.
No, it doesn't make too much sense to me either.
So he can whack off, use a laptop for hacking AND drive a car at the same time?! He must be a very flexible man!
Lovely, 17m to help educate the people of europe about computer security problems, except that most of that will be swallowed up in translation costs for all the different european languages...
Isn't AT&T's patent just for a business method and as such unpatentable? Or is that just in Europe?