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Originally Posted by ian@huth
I often wonder about the legality of ISPs having newsgroups on their servers that contain copyright material. From what I understand the ISP is not responsible for material that is requested by a customer but could be liable for copyright material stored on its servers that nobody has requested.
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Lets think about newsgroup providers such as giganews etc., they sell access to pirate material, if they could have be prosecuted for supplying such, im sure they already would have been, so I assume they cant be touched, why can they prosecute file sharers, the original napster, but not news providers?