Is Assisting With Assisting With Assisting With Potential Copyright Infringement Illegal?
With a Swedish court trying to shut down The Pirate Bay by forcing what it thought was the site’s main ISP to block it, many folks are talking about how quickly the site came back, and the site’s rather defiant response to the attempt. There’s also some buzz about the fact that an antivirus company, Avast, has started blocking The Pirate Bay as being “malicious.” While Avast defends the decision, it certainly makes me question Avast’s competence as a security company (Update: Avast now says it was a false positive and has been fixed — but that wasn’t what the company said originally). It should be looking at actual malicious behavior — not just blocking a site that you could go to where you might possibly if you did something dumb get some malicious files on your computer. Why not just do what a security product is supposed to do and stop the actual maliciousness from occurring, rather than blocking the entire site? But, more to the point, this highlights one of the slippery slope pr
Related Questions
- How is this possible? If they were really illegal, wouldn the original companies sue them for copyright infringement and shut them down?
- Is Assisting With Assisting With Assisting With Potential Copyright Infringement Illegal?
- How can our library reduce its potential liability for copyright infringement?
