I think we're ok under DCMA. >From a /. post: The Copyright Office Summary of 'The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998' states under Limitation for Transitory Communications
In general terms, section 512(a) limits the liability of service providers in circumstances where the provider merely acts as a data conduit, transmitting digital information from one point on a network to another at someone else's request. This limitation covers acts of transmission, routing, or providing connections for the information, as well as the intermediate and transient copies that are made automatically in the operation of a network. In order to qualify for this limitation, the service provider's activities must meet the following conditions: The transmission must be initiated by a person other than the provider. (we're good) The transmission, routing, provision of connections, or copying must be carried out by an automatic technical process without selection of material by the service provider. (we're good) The service provider must not determine the recipients of the material. (we dont know if a node is an endpoint or not, so we're good) Any intermediate copies must not ordinarily be accessible to anyone other than anticipated recipients, and must not be retained for longer than reasonably necessary. (if caching http proxies are ok, then we're ok) The material must be transmitted with no modification to its content. (duh ;)) On another note, when can we expect metadata to be implemented? -Larry _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
