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US forum admins will be watching a Californian court with nervous interest, as social forum LiveJournal goes to trial for copyright infringement. The trial is being seen as a test of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), since LiveJournal had previously argued it was protected by that law's safe harbour provisions. …

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  1. Your alien overlord - fear me

    Definitely worse - running ads on a forum !!!

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  2. wolfetone Silver badge

    Sleepwalking in to World War 3, but photos of a woman who was a bit pregnant with adverts for Kiddicare IS MUCH MUCH MUCH WORSE!!!.

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    1. Elfo74
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      No such thing...

      ...as "a bit pregnant": either you are or you aren't.

      It's like: "yeah, officer. I did it. But I left him just a bit dead!"

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  3. imanidiot Silver badge

    This will be interesting

    Mostly in how the court is going to interprit the actions of "volunteer" moderators and their affiliation/work for the website. It could have heavy repercussions for how ad-supported sites run their bussiness and how much liberty/power they grant their moderators. I can foresee many forums banning their moderators from posting any content under a moderator account just in case anyway.

    In any case, posting "questionably obtained" materials as a moderator is a stupid thing to do anyway.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: This will be interesting

      Especially interesting as the other fuss about Livejournal is its migration of its servers to the Russian Federation - it's owned by СУП, a joint venture of Mamut, Kommersant and others.

      I can see it ceasing to operate in the US in the near future.

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  4. Gio Ciampa

    Today's entry in the "still going?" list...

    Neopets yesterday...

    LiveJournal today...

    It'll be AskJeeves next...

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  5. breakfast Silver badge

    Another thing too

    Seems like the other big LiveJournal story is the fact their new T&Cs require you to accept being bound by Russian law and all their non-Russian users appear to be engaged in an exodus.

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    1. anothercynic Silver badge
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      Re: Another thing too

      Thanks for the reminder... I just pulled the plug on mine.

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  6. Jeffrey Nonken

    As sites lose their section 230 immunity due to self-policing, they will stop self-policing. Is that the result we really want?

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