ISPs now responsible for Pirated Material

[Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>]

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http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,28357,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh

Summary:  IF a local ISP doesn't register with the goverment, per a new law
Clinton signed this week, the ISP can be held legally responsible for any
pirated material that may be on their site.

Doug

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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'