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- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!tradent!lord
- From: lord@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca (Jason Cooper)
- Newsgroups: alt.bbs.allsysop
- Subject: *** LEGAL HELP WANTED ***
- Message-ID: <o87JwB1w165w@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 11:41:23 PST
- Organization: TradeNET International Trade Corp.
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- Anybody here know if it is possible to request "common carrier status"
- for a BBS? For those of you not familiar with this, or perhaps looking
- for an american equivalent, this status is granted to services such as
- radio stations and telephone companies, and absolves them of all
- responsibility for what happens to transpire through their services. I'm
- wondering if I can apply for this for my bulletin board so that I am not
- held responsible for pirated files that rest on my drive though I don't
- use them. I don't see why this WOULDN'T be granted, but I'm wondering if
- anybody out there has done this or knows how I might go about doing so.
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- Jason Cooper
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