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Old 01-26-2005, 10:57 AM  
Manowar
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Originally Posted by Greg B
Manowar, I agree.

Yet I can see the forest for the trees in that the file sharing service can't be held responsible fully for what people share. It's like trying to blame the phone company because some asschew decided to use a phone to threaten somebody. All they're doing is providing a service/procedure. What the user does with it is his or her own responsibility. The service can put in a warning in their TOS not to share certain files and perhaps even put in some form of filter. Yet in the long run a service is a service.

I'm quite sure the Supreme Court will see this and rule quickly.
Hopefully, but I can see the broadcast company reps pushing the whole "you dont try and stop users sharing illegal files", "you need to implement methods to stop" argument.

Hopefully the court will see sense
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