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delichon 13 hours ago

Should the phone company be liable for their customers performing a copywrited song on the phone? Why should an ISP be required to surveil their customers but not the phone company? When my dish washing machine can take voice commands does it get deputized by the copywrite police too?

Joker_vD 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Since phone (and internet) is not mail, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that "no law of Congress can place in the hands of officials connected with the Postal Service any authority to invade the secrecy of letters and such sealed packages in the mail; and all regulations adopted as to mail matter of this kind must be in subordination to the great principle embodied in the fourth amendment of the Constitution" is completely irrelevant /s