Common carrier regulations generally exempt carriers from liability for what
is carried.
Eric Hildum
> From: "M. David" <davidm1@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:30:03 GMT
> To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: legalities
>
> A few weeks ago I read about how the Japanese police raided and shut down a
> guy who was running a porno-picture site on i-mode. It was supposedly the
> first time an i-mode site was shut down.
> DoCoMo had no comment....
> It wouldn't be in their interest to shut down such site, since they get
> cash from the packets.
> I dont know of any precedent in Japan where the hosting company or access
> provider has been held responsible. Its nearly impossible for a provider or
> server to monitor all traffic- even China has a tough time with this.
[excessive quoting removed]
Received on Wed Oct 18 21:12:30 2000