Filtering Companies Can?t Be Sued By Blacklisted Firms, Court Rules

**woj** · 06-26-2009, 02:46 PM

interesting

**seeandsee** · 06-26-2009, 02:49 PM

Originally posted by securedservers

A federal appeals court, in the first decision of its kind, said Thursday that companies providing malware, spyware and adware blocking services are immunized by the Communications Decency Act of 1996 from lawsuits claiming unfair business practices.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/200...eringimmunity/

big news for this biz

1996? fuck off :D

**Snake Doctor** · 06-26-2009, 02:57 PM

So how long until a big player buys up some of those filtering companies and blocks their competitors sites, and then claims immunity based on this decision?

Filtering Companies Can?t Be Sued By Blacklisted Firms, Court Rules

Filtering Companies Can?t Be Sued By Blacklisted Firms, Court Rules

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