[50990] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Major Labels v. Backbones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Hickstein)
Sat Aug 17 02:24:06 2002
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 23:23:31 -0700
From: Jim Hickstein <jxh@jxh.com>
To: NANOG <NANOG@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <BNEJJGFPFOAPBMHHEDILEEFLHOAA.john@ferriby.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
--On Friday, August 16, 2002 10:03 PM -0400 John Ferriby <john@ferriby.com>
wrote:
> If there are any legal eagles here, can a Common Carrier be a contributing
> infringer?
IANAL, but last I looked -- admittedly a long, long time ago -- ISPs were
not afforded protection as common carriers (18 USC?), no matter how much
they tried to act like them. Has this changed?
