[148675] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Megaupload.com seized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Jan 20 06:10:12 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <201201201025.q0KAPdM5040190@mail.r-bonomi.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:05:47 -0800
To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 20, 2012, at 2:25 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
>
> Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:
>>
>> I suspect most file sharing site don't have illegal content. Most
>> would have some content that is there without the permission of the
>> copyright holder. These are different things.
>
> <nitpick>
> "Without the permission of the copyright holder" _is_ contrary to
> statute, and thus 'against the law'. As such 'illegal' is _not_
> an incorrect term to apply to the situation.
>
> It may not be a _criminal_ violation, but it is still proscribed by law.
>
> "Illegal" and "criminal" -- _these_ are different things.
>
> Junk faxing is illegal, Telemarketing calls to cell phones are illegal,
> Public distribution without the permission of the copyright owner is
> illegal.
>
> Except in special cases, none of those actions are _criminal_, but
> they are all violations of law, and thus _illegal_.
>
Actually, they are all criminal violations. They may be infractions, or, they
may not often get prosecuted, but, each is, in fact, a criminal violation.
Owen
