Ananth wrote: > Thomas Hruska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ananth wrote: >> > Thomas Hruska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> DO NOT post illegal content or links to illegal content on c-prog. >> >> Since I reside in the U.S., that may make _ME_ liable and thus send _ME_ >> >> to prison. >> > >> > Really??!! >> > Has something like that happened in some other forum? >> >> You seem overly eager... > > LOL > No, was surprised to read that. I'm not a US resident but travel to US > regularly. > Surprised to read that because most of things I've seen and > experienced are neat, logical in US. > I'm aware of FBI tracking DVD movie pirates, but those are the actual > torrent leechers who know they are getting into something illegal. > Targeting owner of forum and holding him responsible for some user > post? That doesn't sound logical. > > Cheers > - Ananth
Dumber things have happened here in the U.S. For example, a woman a few years back sued McDonald's for millions of dollars and won (not the full amount, but quite a bit). She had spilled hot coffee on herself and sued partially because "the warning label was too small". Had the judge sitting on the bench had a little common sense, he would have laughed the case completely out of the courtroom: "Hot coffee is hot. Duh. Next case." Why should McDonald's have to pay for someone else's stupidity? Similar cases prior to that one had been thrown out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald's_coffee_case http://www.overlawyered.com/2005/10/urban_legends_and_stella_liebe.html Since then, various 'duh' cases have followed and unfortunately succeeded. We pretty much have a joke of a legal system (and we have a joke of a patent system too). Common sense and logic have clearly gone out the window in favor of long-term chaos. A little common sense would do our legal system a LOT of good. Under the current system, if I passively allow links to illegal content on the forum, that potentially makes me an "enabler". People have been sued and/or put in jail for less. -- Thomas Hruska CubicleSoft President Ph: 517-803-4197 *NEW* MyTaskFocus 1.1 Get on task. Stay on task. http://www.CubicleSoft.com/MyTaskFocus/
