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Shawn Gossman:
--- Quote from: Kindred on October 26, 2011, 11:08:39 AM ---pretty urls are pointless....
and attachments in PM is a bad idea. If someone distributes illegal or copyrighted material via PM, this now makes the ADMIN responsible.... and the admin can not (easily) scan PMs.
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People can do this through email. I think not adding it because of that reason is a bit paranoid, lol.
Kindred:
I don't think it's paranoid at all.
If they do it through email, then I am not responsible for any illegal behavior. If they do it on my site, then it could be argued that I am responsible.
青山 素子:
--- Quote from: Kindred on November 03, 2011, 07:47:47 PM ---If they do it through email, then I am not responsible for any illegal behavior. If they do it on my site, then it could be argued that I am responsible.
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Exactly.
Given the ramming through of the PROTECT IP Act currently going on in Congress in the US, I'd rather not take any chances. The last thing you need is PM attachments containing copyrighted material causing ISPs to remove your entire domain from DNS, advertising companies dropping you and refusing to deal with you, donations being frozen, etc. because a company complained and used the items in this act to shut your site down completely.
(It's like the DMCA take-down process on steroids, and with no judicial oversight.)
Let the e-mail provider handle it, I don't have time or money to file a proper counter-claim and notify all parties that then have to restore me, etc...
Shawn Gossman:
--- Quote from: Kindred on November 03, 2011, 07:47:47 PM ---I don't think it's paranoid at all.
If they do it through email, then I am not responsible for any illegal behavior. If they do it on my site, then it could be argued that I am responsible.
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If you have a proper terms of service, this can be avoided of course pending the country you live in.
Kindred:
no, it really can't. Regardless of what you want to CLAIM in your TOS agreement, *YOU* are held responsible for what is one YOUR site. Your hosting company will hold you responsible and will shut down your account, if someone even sneezes a DCMA call in your direction. It won't matter (and they won't even bother to look) - even if you have a ToS that says "you agree that I am not responsible for your actions on my site"
Neither would that legally hold up if someone ended up taking it to court.
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