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Originally Posted by nextri If I send a picture to AT&T from my phone and they send it to the 50 people I selected on my contact list, are AT&T then responsible for publishing it and should be held responsible if it was copyrighted? In principle, there isn't a difference between that, and me doing it on facebook. Many internet services are communication platforms, just as much as AT&T. You can't hold the provider responsible for the communication that takes place by it's users.

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Originally Posted by blackmonsters Re-state your above scenario and change "picture" to "picture of CP" and that you constantly do it and AT&T has been informed about it and it keeps happening but AT&T doesn't give a shit and they continue to let your pics go thru. Try that one.

ATT is not under the US RICO Act or in most international laws a "criminal enterprise" and not the "policeman"; They have shelter of responsibilities in their contracted users' actions this is similar to the holder in due course in financial transactions -- same principles. However, if a common carrier has specific knowledge of criminal activity by the order of a court they are compelled to act -- they can limit any action to that -- receipt of a court order signed by a judge.

And so it should be; This is why adjudication exists ...

Personal property rights are a civil issue usually in copyright matters and C/P is a criminal issue. Don't compare apples and oranges -- it's pointless ...