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No need to imagine. There's an enormous amount of case law here. It has repeatedly been upheld that hosts are not liable for hosted content published by others
by kyledrake 9y ago
No need to imagine. There's an enormous amount of case law here. It has repeatedly been upheld that hosts are not liable for hosted content published by others (at least in the US):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communications_Decency_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...
- strictnein 9y agoAnd when you tell the judge that you don't even have the ability to take down the offending material, what then?
- GhotiFish 9y agoout of curiosity, who is this judge talking to again? A storage node?
- stebalien 9y agoYou can absolutely take down the offending material; you'll just lose the collateral (you can also transfer the contract to someone else but that will likely not be legal in all jurisdictions). However, as the contracts are made between the clients and miners directly, miners can choose to charge anonymous/untrusted clients more to make up for this potential eventuality.
- FooHentai 9y agoBut you do, as far as your own hosting of that data is concerned - You shut off your node and delete your data store.