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If you could prove to a jury that it is the
government who put the stuff on freenet you will be perfectly
safe.
Earthlink, Hotmail, Verizon are not expected to
know to because they are a massive companys that handle millions of peices of
data a day.
It's the same reason why if bob asks you to deliver
his box of drugs you will get in trouble, but if bob mails his box of drugs the
mail carrier will not.
It may seem unfair but thats the way it
works. You are expected to be responsable for your own personal
actions.
I'm sure freenet could be cracked.... but has
it? or will it? That is something I'm not sure of.
But if your being arrested for useing freenet we
have to make the assumption that it has been.
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> > Matthew Findley > writes:>Well the reason that the common argument > is illegal pornography is because it is one of the few pieces of information > that is totally illegal. Everything >from how to build a nuke > to why you'd like to see Bush dead is legal. But not KP, it has a > very unique status. And the reason people don't commonly >argue > copyright infringment as a reason is because truthfuly no one cares but > who ever is being infringed upon.Ah, precisely! So am I to assume that > prosecutors are looking for freenet to step over the line? Thus if KP didn't > exist it might be necessary to invent some. My understanding is that right > now the biggest distributor of this stuff is U.S. and British law enforcement > agencies, hoping to entrap whomever they can. So perhaps they are the ones > posting this stuff to freenet!>If you could prove that Earthlink, Hotmail, > Verizon knew that they were helping spread illegal information and failed > to act they could be help accountable.But you can't prove this because my > example is that illegal materials are passing through anonymously, perhaps > in an encrypted format. This is true also of mail servers and news servers. > Every now and again something nasty gets posted there, I'm sure. Yet this > is not considered aiding and abetting. My contention is that freenet is > in the same category as a mail or news server. Actually it should have > less culpability as it is more difficult to know if something illegal has > been stored, and by whom.Finally, are you hinting that perhaps > freenet has been cracked by some intelligence or enforcement agency? > Jeff Furgal |
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