Cloudflare doesn’t have to cut off copyright-infringing websites, judge rules

Re:Cloudflare doesn’t have to cut off copyright-infringing w... by stefan_ on Thursday October 07, 2021 @07:19PM (#28793397)

If UPS finds drugs, they call the cops and you are probably better off not having that package delivered. If someone tells Cloudflare they are hosting copyright-infringing content.. they sue to say the Cloudflare service is ineffective and does nothing to provide the infringing content?

Is this the analogy you were going for?

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Re:Cloudflare doesn’t have to cut off copyright-infringing w... by jedberg on Thursday October 07, 2021 @11:36PM (#28795471)

Except UPS doesn't find drugs because they don't look for it. Just like Cloudflare doesn't look for illegal content.

If someone told UPS a package has drugs in it, they'd say, "that's nice, talk to the sender" and then deliver the package. If someone tells Cloudflare, "that content is illegal", they say, "that's nice, talk to the site owner".

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Re:Cloudflare doesn’t have to cut off copyright-infringing w... by vkou on Friday October 08, 2021 @12:06AM (#28795637)

> If someone told UPS a package has drugs in it, they'd say, "that's nice, talk to the sender" and then deliver the package.

Would they? Or would they turn the package over to the police?

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Re:Cloudflare doesn’t have to cut off copyright-infringing w... by scaryclam on Friday October 08, 2021 @09:40AM (#28799176)

Usually, people don't tell UPS they have a drugs package, they tell the police directly and the police go and work with UPS. That's the issue with many of these analogies, people don't talk to the car dealership/UPS/landlord/hotel staff/etc, they talk to the authorities because that's the normal thing to do.

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