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11/09
Are Web Hosting Bureaus Liable for Illegal Downloads?
There’s a lot of room for interpretation in the copyright laws with one side arguing that web host providers should not be held liable if one of its clients do some hanky panky on the net that law enforcers frown at. Apart from putting child porn on their sites, it includes having copyrighted materials ready for downloading.
Some states require that web hosts close down the offending sites after reasonable warning and a desist order from posting illegal materials. I’m not sure how a court order will affect the operation of a web hosting services, but feel free to give us your ideas and opinions on what the web hosting management should do for against offending web sites it hosts.