It will be interesting to see if they actually try to go after Geocities, especially since the Telecommunications Act specifically exempts ISPs. Of course, the point in going after Yahoo/Geocities isn't actually to get them to clean up their act; it's to send a message: "If we're going after the big boys, the rest of you better do what we say, because you small fry, without the deep pockets, will be next." And with an increasingly conservative judiciary, it's likely that these cases will succeed.
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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