----- Forwarded message from Jay Ashworth <[email protected]> ----- From: Jay Ashworth <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:42:11 -0500 (EST) To: NANOG <[email protected]> Subject: Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can. X-Mailer: Zimbra 6.0.9_GA_2686 (ZimbraWebClient - FF3.0 (Linux)/6.0.9_GA_2686)
----- Original Message ----- > From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <[email protected]> > "Mere conduit" defense. (Please do not anyone mention "common carrier > status" or the like, ISPs are _not_ common carriers.) > Do you think if the police found out child pr0n was being served from > a starbux they wouldn't confiscate the equipment from that store? Well, pursuant to the "mere conduit" defense, I believe (IANAL) a defensible case could be made that the (people operating) Tor nodes are not "servers" as that term is generally understood in the industry, in the same way that web browser/caches are not "copies" as IP law understands *that* term. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
