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Originally Posted by Markul
It makes good sense. Why would they be liable? That would make ISPs, phone makers, power plants and everyone else liable too.
The argument that hosts are liable for the actions of their customers is about as dumb as the argument that gun makers are liable for armed robberies.
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Why?
If you rented storage space for drug dealers to store their drugs, would you be responsible? Yes, you would.
If you rented an apartment for prostitution, would you be responsible? Yes, you would. (at least here)
The only important thing for criminal responsibility is if you
knew about it.
So why not hosting companies??? It's their equipment and as long as they know the user is doing something illegal, why not???
Why do they delete any content involving CP if (according to you) they are not be responsible for what others put on their servers?? It's the same logic. I am sure in those cases they act lightning fast.
If they
know that the content is illegal cause they had it proven
and yet they ignore it, they would most likely be criminally responsible in most European countries.
They are only protected by DMCA which, by the way, we don't have locally.
