John writes:

> In the US, ISPs are not, and never have been
> viewed, as common carriers.

I recall a case involving CompuServe in which it was treated at least
partially as a common carrier, not responsible for the content of its
network.

>    (1) Treatment of publisher or speaker
>        No provider or user of an interactive
>        computer service [read, an ISP] shall be
>        treated as the publisher or speaker of
>        any information provided
>        by another information content provider.

How is this reconciled with the DMCA?



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