Liable "only if it intended that the provided service be used for infringement"

8 years in the making, The US Supreme Court affirms that a provider is merely... a provider, and not complicit in the illegal acts that some of it's subscribers engage in.

You would think that this was a matter of common sense, but where deep pockets are involved... Well, Read on young Grasshoppa*, and while you're at it, *try to snatch the pebble from my hand. That's the lay version in common sense language.

For what it's worth, I say, Boom Shakalaka BOOM 💥 Mic Drop 🎤

For the dry, definitive version of the article you can read the actual unanimous ruling itself HERE

#tallship #SCOTUS #justice #piracy #ISP

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I just left Cindy Cohn's Presentation and book release party via remote stream.

Cindy is the Executive director of the EFF, and came to prominence regarding the Bernstein case against the prohibition of "strong encryption" a few years back during the Clinton administration.

Today, the industrial surveillance special interests are being aided again by socialist governments in the form of California_Digital_Age_Assurance_Act (AB 1043), and I was fortunate enough to have her directly address my question about just what we're going to do to defeat this and other criminal lawfare against our identity and privacy.

My question was the first question asked (and answered, sort of), and long before the Q&A that is supposed to wrap up the presentation, but I must say that I was a bit disappointed in that she really had nothing to offer other than to say we need to fight this.

Yes, of course we do. From my point of view, as part of my terms of service for a few years now, I've done what #Midnight_BSD has done by prohibiting Californians from using their OS by changes to the licensing - perhaps this is the way to go for all of us? Letting California (and Colorado) descend into the socialist abyss of third world dystopian decay; unable to compete and compute in a world that has left them behind and turned its back on them.

It's certainly worked out well for me. Due to the #GDPR and #CCPA I prohibit all residents of the #EU and #California, respectively, from using any online services that I provide or host - even though all of my services are actually GDPR and CCPA compliant.

I'll post a follow up here once I get the URL for the on-demand recording of Cindy (and Corey Doctorow), so that you can follow along and hear what they're prepared to do about AB 1043 (and similar legislation in Colorado)... unfortunately, she didn't actually impress me with any sort of game plan to protect the FOSS community from this latest implementation of dystopian socialist surveillance.

#tallship #Cindy_Cohn #Cory_Doctorow #FOSS #KYC #Industrial_Surveillance #Privacy #Identity

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