Comments on: RIAA Suing Usenet? Not A Chance https://mikesouth.com/legal/riaa-suing-usenet-not-a-chance-1284/ The institute for the advance study of insensitivity and pornography Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:33:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Frank https://mikesouth.com/legal/riaa-suing-usenet-not-a-chance-1284/#comment-158 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:33:11 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/legal/riaa-suing-usenet-not-a-chance-1284/#comment-158 This is very similar to what the gun control loonies have been trying to do. ie: hold gun owners liable for guns used during a crime when the gun was stolen. http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/06/30/sjc_some_gun_owners_could_be_liable_for_firearms_stolen_in_home/

So far they’ve been meeting with limited success.

Usenet.com however may have a tougher battle, unless they do something to demonstrate their desire to disallow unlawful use of their servers.

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