Originally posted by Victor Von DoomThough many things are taken tongue and cheek...
Some copyright breaches actually help more than hinder. Most things are actionable against the site as well as the users, which is why back when Czarina was libelling Prince, the moderators should have taken it a bit more seriously. Shocking that they seem to be unaware of that.
Question: What are the criteria a service provider must satisfy in order to qualify for safe harbor protection under Subsection 512(a) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act?
Answer: Subsection 512(a) provides a safe harbor for service providers in regard to communications that do not reside on the service provider’s system or network, but merely pass “through” the system or network. Any copies of the communications on the system must be temporary, i.e., “intermediate or transient.”
A service provider must satisfy the following critical elements in order to qualify for the “safe harbor” or protection from liability provided by subsection 512(a) (note that subsection 512(k)(1)(A) defines “service provider” as used in subsection 512(a)):
(a) The service provider is an entity offering the transmission, routing, or providing of connections for digital online communications [512(k)(1)(A)];
(b) The service provider did not initiated the transmission of the material [512(a)(1)]
(b) The transmission, routing, provision of connections, or storage is carried out by an automatic technical process [512(a)(2)];
(c) The Internet user, not the service provider, must select the origination and destination points of the communication [512(a)(3) and 512(k)(1)(A)];
(e) The service provider must not modify the communication selected by the Internet user [512(a)(5)];
(f) The communication is transmitted “through” the system or network of the service provider [512(a)(2)];
(f) No copy of the communication is maintained on the system or network in a manner ordinarily accessible to anyone other than anticipated recipients [512(a)(4)]; and
(g) No copy is maintained on the system or network in a manner ordinarily accessible to anticipated recipients for a longer period than is reasonably necessary for the transmission, routing, and provision of connections [512(a)(4)].
I wonder how "g" fits in with the comic respect forum scans. As they may be hosted elsewhere but they are longterm linked to here
Context and scans are present there..... 😬 Which as it gives a plot outline and often the best sequence of images; For some this makes buying the comic redundant and opens a whole another set of questions. I'm sure Raz has it all sorted though. 🙂
Actually, Troop (an AJ sock) was just trying to cause a stir. Posting issues of comics was banned as a practice on KMC quite a while ago. The respect forum has feats posted, but they are removed from theri context so reading a story is impossible. If the companies are miffed about "Hey, here's what {insert character} can do!" then that is another matter, though it's hard to imagine why they would be, as they serve to inform people about characters without posting issues, likely resulting in an increase of sales. But KMC doesn't contribute to a loss in comic sales by any of its practices.
The illegal downloading that was mentioned does not and cannot occur on KMC, and we have no jurisdiction on outside websites, so that isn't our concern. Any threads created about it are closed, however, since the practice is not condoned.
Originally posted by DigiMark007
Actually, Troop (an AJ sock) was just trying to cause a stir. Posting issues of comics was banned as a practice on KMC quite a while ago. The respect thread has feats posted, but they are removed from theri context so reading a story is impossible. If the companies are miffed about "Hey, here's what {insert character} can do!" then that is another matter, though it's hard to imagine why they would be, as they serve to inform people about characters without posting issues, likely resulting in an increase of sales. But KMC doesn't contribute to a loss in comic sales by any of its practices.The illegal downloading that was mentioned does not and cannot occur on KMC, and we have no jurisdiction on outside websites, so that isn't our concern. Any threads created about it are closed, however, since the practice is not condoned.
As for the illegal downloading thing - personally, in the video game forums, I do not allow any discussion of illegal downloads whatsoever, as to avoid the entire mess that could come from someone getting the idea that we condone that sort of behaviour.