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1 edit | RE:Web Hosts Hit With $32 Million Judgment For Content On Cu While many will decry this verdict, what the story failed to reveal was that the web host was WARNED repeatedly that those users of their services that were selling knock off Louis Vitton luggage were breaking the law. The web host owners failed to kick those illegal users off their system. They deserve what happened to them.
(1) Based on what I've read so far of the materials involved in this case, it appears that repeated attempts were made to inform the webhost that their customer was Up To No Good, and that the webhost failed to act on that information.
(2) An astonishing number of webhosts, email providers, and just ordinary domain owners have failed to read RFC 2142 and do what it says. This means that they have -- either through ignorance, incompetence, laziness or just contrariness -- done the Internet equivalent of sticking their fingers in their ears so that they can't hear problem reports. And of course, many of subsequently feign shock that whatever-it-is has been going on for a very long time, and have their paid professional spokesliars say things like "We were unaware..." P.S. DMCA AND CDT safe harbor laws don't apply here
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1 edit | No, they don't.
They also sued ebay (in France) and won $63 million there, too. (Same allegation, users selling fakes.)
This ruling is very dangerous for public internet sites, like BBR here.
This gives sue-happy lawyers many easy targets to extort money from.
I'm wondering how many user avatar's, for example, show trademarked logos or other items, and BBR could be held liable for it.
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