Re:Filecoin 2017 Q4 Update
by regulation_d on Thursday January 11, 2018 @05:47PM
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IANAL, but these statements seem to fly in the face of the general requirement that a actor must have the requisite mens rea to commit a crime. There certainly are exceptions to the mens rea requirement, but it seems like if you're making a conclusory statement like "Yes, you could be held legally responsible.", then you should provide some reasoning for why that would be the case.
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There's contributory infringement in copyright law, but copyright law is so far out of balance these days that I'm hesitant to draw an inference from it.
This otherwise sounds like worrying that you'll be charged with armed robbery because the robbers threw their gun onto your lawn while escaping the cops. Yeah, sure, that could happen, but only through a series of factual misunderstandings about who did what, not because you actually committed a crime.