On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:20:45PM -0500, Brandon wrote: > > > This is pseudo-lawyering, which is dangerous. As has been demonstrated > > with Napster (who didn't filter anything), whether you currently filter > > something or not, if it is on the WWW, you can be shut down. > > This is U.S. legal precedent. Napster was shut down because it was deemed > a technology specifically designed for copyright infringement without > substantial non-infringing uses. > Search engines, on the other hand, have historically been okay unless they > censored some content, in which they were deemed to be taking > responsibility for the non-filtered content.
Quite, but I am not talking about Freegle censoring anything, I am merely talking about Freegle organising content so that people don't
