AOL Found Guilty of Piracy

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Well isnt this something else. Late yesterday AOL was found guilty in court of piracy. AOL by allowing people to trade files through their service in Germany. Hit Box was the plantiff and they claimed that AOL was responsible for allowing their property to be distributed through AOL.

AOL appealed the case, basing at least part of its defense on the assertion that it could not be held responsible for, or even monitor, everything its millions of users send, just as the mail service is not held responsible for illicit material that passes through post offices.

... and I really wonder if we want to even attempt to allow file attachment options in msgcenter. Heh.

Steve Gibson is the cofounder of Shacknews.com. Originally known as sCary's Quakeholio back in 1996, Steve is now President of Gearbox Publishing after selling Shacknews to GameFly in 2009.

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