Thursday, 28. June 2007
Topic: WEB - on June 28, 2007 at 11:16:00 AM CEST
What Happens Without Safe Harbor Protections: ISP Deletes All User Multimedia Files
In the ongoing case of Viacom against Google, one of the keys is whether or not Google/YouTube have protection under the DMCA safe harbor provisions, which are supposed to protect service providers from the actions of their users. This is an important, because without those safe harbor provisions, the increase in liability would basically cripple all kinds of internet service providers. For an example, just look to Australia, where an ISP was found liable for content its users hosted, leading another ISP to delete all multimedia files hosted by its users every night (these are only the files hosted on their web accounts, not on their home computers, obviously).
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