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Re:I've Just Liberated My Modules by iopq on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @04:19AM (#11342843)
The court can't punish you for not being able to do the impossible. That's ludicrous. "We have shut down all of our servers, yes. We can't stop people from downloading this, no"
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Re:I've Just Liberated My Modules by Retra on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @11:50PM (#11350459)
That's because all laws make sense and all people who enforce and judge them are understand this.
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Re:I've Just Liberated My Modules by tangus on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @06:20AM (#11343217)
Pay damages, then.
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Re:I've Just Liberated My Modules by naasking on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @08:32AM (#11343815)
Pay damages because someone else uploaded something by accident and you can't fix it? It doesn't work like that.
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Re:I've Just Liberated My Modules by fixermark on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @03:17PM (#11347388)
It only doesn't work like that in the context of safe harbor laws.

If the safe harbor law protection doesn't apply, and the defendant is responsible for the illegal behavior, the defendant can absolutely be held legally liable and pay the legally-appropriate punishment.

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Re:I've Just Liberated My Modules by iopq on Thursday March 24, 2016 @04:01AM (#11351255)
Why should you pay the damages for something that's not on your server?
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