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Originally Posted by notinmybackyard
Postal services have strict laws and they will personally nail you to the wall if you use their services for fraud or prohibited items. Why do you think pornographers use private delivery services such as UPS in the United States? (And yes they will and do open mail on a regular basis... writ not required.)
In the United States Internet service providers fall under the control of the Federal Communications Commission. They have clearly stated that "Consumers are entitled to access the lawful Internet content of their choice." Now in the United States the interpretation appears to be a subject of debate. It is more of this cat and mouse game that is played. The ISPs make a huge amount of money from ilegal activity so they claim ignorance.
However in my country I was pirated and I just outright sued the ISP after having called the police. They paid me a settlement to go away.
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Yea, the services has terms. Just like ad-network has terms. Same same. Still doesn't change the fact that it's fairly silly to ask people to pre-police everything that goes on with their services.
That would mean search engines, hosting providers, ad-networks, ISP, phone companies, postal services and so many other providers of some sort of communication or infrastructure. Companies would simply go out of business.
That's also why it will never happen. Sure the services needs to react when their terms are violated, but to actively monitor everything that goes on is just not going to be possible.