Sat, 17 Aug 2002
NYTimes: Listen4ever to be blocked by US ISPs
In an article from the NY Times:
"Wouldn't it be better to get an injunction from a Chinese court to punish the people behind this?" Mr. Von Lohmann said. "Are we going to have a situation where rather than going after the actual wrongdoers we just go block all these sites?"
Probably. The problem I see here is simple: what if a website has more content than just music? If I open up Dave's Music and Technology Downloads and the RIAA begs the US legal system to block my site, what happens to the legitimate technology portion of my site? Could I then sue for damages to the technology part of my business? Would they try to force ISPs to block access based on a specific URL filter, page, or the like? Wouldn't that raise the costs of administering such a system beyond what the ISPs could sustain?
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