----- Original Message ----- From: Some Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, August 11, 2003 10:38 am Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] Distributed LAN Filesystem
> I'm not a lawyer either, but yes freenet was designed > to give the node minimal (no) liablity for the content > it's routing/hosting. I think it's been called > something like "plausible deniablity". Nobody knows > "who done it". I know a lawyer I've been bugging > about these kinds of things maybe I can ask her and > post. > > You might be getting onto shakier ground though if it > can be argued that an entire network is owned and run > by the university for the purposes of copywrite > enfringment. The key is to make it clear that the > university makes these nodes available for student > freesites no matter thier content. You have to push > the legal liablity on that "unknown student" that > nobody can find. An arguement about the system's > merits as an experiment and free speach zone, will > cover your ass well. > Right. This network wouldn't be *for* copyright infringement... That is, it would certainly have legal, productive uses. I'm just considering the issue of copyright infringement now, because it seems like something that might happen on a university campus if this were set up (because it already happens now via KaZaA, Blubster, Soulseek, etc.). Even if it is used to violate copyrights, I'm almost positive that it would be used as a forum for free speech as well. It would also be used to provide faster downloads to things like Linux ISOs (at least Knoppix), which can be freely redistributed. > > "Fair Use", it's been well defined. > > > No, the fair use does not extend to your right to > download music off your webserver and accidentally > make it avaible to others that haven't bought it. > Though if you bought it you may download it. Websites > used to say "don't download if it's illegal." Those > sites are gone now. > I know that fair use doesn't allow you to give copies of your music to others, even incidentally. But it is legal for me to post MP3s made from a commercially purchased CD to my web site. I have not done anything illegal until someone other than me downloads those files. By the same token, it is legal for me to post materials under restricted copyright to my own Freenet node. I have not done anything illegal until someone without rights to that material downloads the files. Because Freenet is anonymous, as I see it there is no way to determine whether the person downloading the content has legal rights to see it. > It maybe hard but not imposible. They might bribe a > cop and a student to document how easy it is to get > music. > What I'm counting is that in a case like that, it might be possible to prove that it is easy of copyrights to be violated, but impossible to prove that copyrights *are* being violated. > Make an index to student pages. The students can then > link to a nym's page. Some hero, who'll not go by his > real identity will then set up a good links page. > A simple web site that queries all of the nodes on the LAN Freenet and provides a search engine does sound like the best idea. Best Regards, Drew http://www.drewbradford.com/ _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
