On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 16:48 -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > But that would not include any debian mirror, they would be common carrier? > > > A mirror operator in general does make choices about the content > carried on the mirror. The closest analogy that would already have > been litigated is a Cable TV system. The U.S. FCC decided that Cable > TV networks were not common carriers because the subscriber did not > determine the programming. This was appealed and the court agreed with > FCC. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_TV > > Now, there might be a way make a mirror qualify. You would have to set > it up so that the mirror would mirror everything that is sent its way > without discrimination. The mirror operator could take money to do > this, but would not be able to turn customers away. > > Then, you might have some chance of convincing a judge that the mirror > provides a communications service in an entirely non-discriminatory > fashion, which is what a common carrier does. I guess Akamai would be > the closest example today to a mirror operating this way. But, of course, all this is US law. French law, for instance, is very strict regarding anything regarding Nazism. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. After seeing all the viruses, trojan horses, worms and Reply mails from stupidly-configured anti-virus software that's been hurled upon the internet for the last 3 years, and the time/money that is spent protecting against said viruses, trojan horses & worms, I can only conclude that Microsoft is dangerous to the internet and American commerce, and it's software should be banned.
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