Still a bad analogy. Part of the deal when you rent from a landlord is that this is your *private* property. Files which people have *public* access to can be freely searched. If the administration is correct, and the passwords were so easy to guess that it was evident that they were *meant* to be guessed, then there's no reason they couldn't access and search them, just like anyone else on the network could. --- Thales
Well, it either can't stand up in court or is meaningless. The context of the quote you mentioned is:
Sony and its licensees shall have the exclusive right, throughout the world, and shall have the exclusive right to authorize other persons, to create, maintain, and host any and all Web sites relating to the artist and to register and use the name '[artist name].com'
Sony can only claim rights through the contract that the artist had to begin with. Since the artist did not have the right to prevent anyone else from registering URL's based on the band's name, Sony can't claim that right through the contract. They can insist that the artist never register such a URL, but any 3rd party could. --- Thales
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Still a bad analogy. Part of the deal when you rent from a landlord is that this is your *private* property. Files which people have *public* access to can be freely searched. If the administration is correct, and the passwords were so easy to guess that it was evident that they were *meant* to be guessed, then there's no reason they couldn't access and search them, just like anyone else on the network could.
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Thales
Sony and its licensees shall have the exclusive right, throughout the world, and shall have the exclusive right to authorize other persons, to create, maintain, and host any and all Web sites relating to the artist and to register and use the name '[artist name].com'
Sony can only claim rights through the contract that the artist had to begin with. Since the artist did not have the right to prevent anyone else from registering URL's based on the band's name, Sony can't claim that right through the contract. They can insist that the artist never register such a URL, but any 3rd party could.
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Thales