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From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.stargate
Subject: Re: Legalities
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Date: Sat, 26-Jan-85 03:10:34 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 26 03:10:34 1985
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Another source of lawsuits can be revelation of private or
agreement-protected information.  In practice a moderator might be very
hard-pressed to detect such disclosure.  (In the case I know the particulars
of, a lawsuit was planned; it was called off only because the information
turned out not to be illegally obtained or in any way protected.  In that
case, no attempt was made to implicate the network as a whole, just the
perpetrator.)

Has there been research into the possible legal implications of an illegal
revelation happening on a more centralized network like Stargate?  Would the
network's central organization be liable for damages, or could damage be
limited to the person who did the posting?  Could a moderator be found to be
criminally negligent?
-=-
Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center
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