On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:44:40 -0000, Peter Merchant <mercha...@onetel.com> wrote:
> Now, Take the university, with it's 250-300 Wireless access points and > 16,000 students, and tell me that none of them have ever downloaded > anything not legit. And it all comes over JANET (Joint Academic > Network). I can take quite the opposite and KNOW completely that content has been shared over JANET for such purposes. Oddly enough the law is in place to protect these people offering wifi for others use. I am not a lawyer but as far as I was aware its called carriers rights. The same principle that says if you take a bus into town and rob a bank, then get the bus home again. The bus company cannot be claimed as assisting you in the robbery. They were providing a publicly accessible service. Oddly enough its the same law that protects ISPs from getting sued when you or I 'steal' content. This is also the reason many ISPs don't want to do too much content filtering, it stops them being a carrier and starts them on being an enforcer. As long as they are enforcing a law they have a legal responsibility to do it well. If they remain a carrier - nothing else - they hold no responsibility for what you do. Its just a shame some of these companies are so large they are above the law. -- Using Opera M2: http://www.opera.com/mail/ -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-12-02 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
