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RE: [dvd-discuss] Slightly OT - Japanese copyrights
- To: "'dvd-discuss(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu'" <dvd-discuss(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu>
- Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] Slightly OT - Japanese copyrights
- From: Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 11:31:04 -0800
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noah silva [mailto:nsilva@atari-source.com]
...
>
> I agree here, I just can't agree that napster itself was
> wrong, because
> they only provided dumb indexes of files. That's like saying a
> "match-up" agency is responsible when some woman kills the guy she met
> through the agency. All they provided her was his name and
> number.
Oddly enough, that was roughly the subject of last night's
"Law & Order". Is a firm that sells personal data (even if
collected from public sources) responsible for the uses to
which that data is put? Do they have an obligation to at
least perform background checks on the people requesting
the data?
According to the script, that answer turned out to be "yes".
--
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com
186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!