[87563] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Compromised machines liable for damage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Sun Dec 25 23:52:51 2005
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
Cc: "Dave Pooser" <dave.nanog@alfordmedia.com>,
"NANOG" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: (Your message of "Sun, 25 Dec 2005 23:14:49 EST.")
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Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 23:52:22 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In message <80632326218FE74899BDD48BB836421A033001@Dul1wnexmb04.vcorp.ad.vrsn.c
om>, "Hannigan, Martin" writes:
>
>Dave, RIAA wins almost 100pct vs p2p'ers ir sues. Its an interesting =
>dichotomy.
>
"Wins" is too strong a word, since I don't think any have gone to
court -- see http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Music-Download-Suit.html
as my source.
Besides, it's a very different situation. For my take on liability
issues -- note that I'm not a lawyer, and note that this is from 1994
-- see http://www.wilyhacker.com/1e/chap12.pdf
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
