> "Steven Moore" wrote in message > Since the file sharing companies are being held responsible for what > people do with their computers then > the gun companies will now be sued for all the woundings and killings > by idiots with guns. > The car companies for people killed in accidents etc or will they...
While I'm not sure where I stand on this and am certainly a big fan of personal responsibility one must allow that there's a difference between the situations you present and the Grokster case. One can hardly argue that the primary use of guns (in the US) is to illegally kill people, and neither is the primary use of cars to kill people in accidents. There are substantial legal ways that both those items can be used...and indeed are primarily used in legal ways. I would be all over going after gun or car companies if they ever advertised "buy our guns...they're great for hold-ups" or "our cars are excellent for going out and getting into wrecks and killing other people"; which is similar to what Grokster did: they marketed their software as being good for breaking the law, and indeed their software was primarily used to break the law. Again, I'm not sure where I stand on this because it's a complicated situation, but I just want to resist simplifying it too much as it's really not like guns or cars--in fact, it seems unlike anything that has come before it. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
