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You're right, but I wonder where the line is drawn with things like online RSS readers. They're basically doing the same thing, but just behind a username/passw
by petercooper 12y ago
You're right, but I wonder where the line is drawn with things like online RSS readers. They're basically doing the same thing, but just behind a username/password.
- declan 12y ago>line is drawn with things like online RSS readers For starters, I'd look at the Supreme Court's opinion in Grokster. Here it is in HN-suitable pseudocode. :) IF $distributing_product_used_by_others_to_infringe == FALSE THEN FIND_NO_LIABILITY ( "None found" ) ELSEIF $distributing_with_object_of_promoting_infringement == TRUE THEN FIND_LIABILITY ( "You're inducing infringement ") ELSE IF $actual_knowledge_of_infringements == TRUE and $failed_to_block == TRUE THEN FIND_LIABILITY ( "You're a contributory infringer ") ELSE IF $capable_of_substantial_noninfringing_uses == TRUE THEN FIND_NO_LIABILITY ( "None found" ) ELSE FIND_LIABILITY ( "You're a contributory infringer ") END END END How this applies to online RSS readers is left as an exercise for the reader... UPDATE: A copyright lawyer friend points out via email that I neglected to include vicarious liability. I'll leave the above pseudocode as-is and note vicarious liability here as a bugfix/todo.