[92839] in Cypherpunks
Re: Remailers & N.E.T.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Clow)
Thu Jan 8 17:40:04 1998
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980108162541.0371f1f0@mail.atl.bellsouth.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 13:57:03 -0800
To: "Robert A. Costner" <pooh@efga.org>, Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
From: Marshall Clow <mclow@owl.csusm.edu>
Cc: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Reply-To: Marshall Clow <mclow@owl.csusm.edu>
At 1:25 PM -0800 1/8/98, Robert A. Costner wrote:
>At 12:47 PM 1/8/98 -0800, Tim May wrote:
>>(Though the SPA and others may then go after the remailers. Ironically, the
>>CDA exempted remailers--though not by name--from liability for messages.)
>
>Unfortunately you are semi wrong here. The CDA specifically does not cover
>Intellectual property matters, and the SPA has consistently insisted that
>the ISPs are liable for what their users do with copyrighted materials.
>
I had a professor in college who called this kind of argument
"Proof by repeated assertion".
That is what the SPA (a private organization) is doing.
-- Marshall
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