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December 22, 2006
Courts vs tech
Courts vs tech: Weird legal decision... a US court grants preliminary injunction against a scammer who linked someone else's live webcasts into their site, so that the victim pays the bandwidth, the perp gets the revenue. But Declan McCullagh's CNET article includes this line: "There is no evidence that SFX tried technical countermeasures, such as referer logging and blocking anyone coming from Davis' site." Why didn't the video creators lock their own front door, by routing out-of-domain visitors to the log-in page, before asking a court to ban inbound links? It's just a preliminary injunction, and there may be mitigating factors (webcasts start today, and the scammer was talking "in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan"), but why wouldn't someone take responsibility for their own stream before asking for big changes in the rest of the world...?
Posted by JohnDowdell at December 22, 2006 07:23 AM
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