You will need the advise of a lawyer on this question. Following are my thought:
(1) An ISP should not act until there is a complaint. And I mean an official one, not just an e-mail. (2) Copyright terrorists have been known to target small and vulnerable ISPs to make examples out of us. Your pick! Bao -- Bao C. Ha, President voice: (678) 467-9415 Hacom, Internet & Web Services http://www.hacom.net Linux/Unix Consulting/Training http://www.masteringlinux.com Primary Perpetrator of "Slackware Linux Unleashed" On Mon, 19 Mar 101, Allen Ahoffman wrote: > as an ISP where does the line go for how liable we are for client's > copyrights violations? > > Here is my situation, and if you feel this is off topic, you may reply to > me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we'll keep any further out of this area. > > But, since this is a ISP area if I have this question someone else > probably does too. > > I have a client who stores (archives) newsgroup articles. I don't even > provide the news data to him. > > He presents access to this data via a web interface to his subscribers. > > So, his policy as far as I know, if someone requests an article be deleted > because of copyright isseus he does so. > > So, am I liable for any violations that may happen on that system? I > don't administer it, only sell shelf and bandwidth to them. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
