When Code Isn't Law
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1885&context=faculty_scholarship
Page 717 - "The programmers of a copyright-resistant P2P network must balance an interest in avoiding legal liability against the competing interests of ensuring performance on a mass scale, maintaining system stability, and fostering network trust."
Developers had liability at all times.
You cannot make an illegal contract nor an illegal term in a license
An illegal term in a contract is "Void ab initio" - it never existed.
That is a separate issue - but a law is lawful until a court states it is not
It may be immoral - that is a separate issue
Contract is not about morality
CSW
Mar 23, 2021
https://metanet-icu.slack.com/archives/C5131HKFX/p1616502135369000?thread_ts=1616502135.369000&cid=C5131HKFX
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1885&context=faculty_scholarship
Page 717 - "The programmers of a copyright-resistant P2P network must balance an interest in avoiding legal liability against the competing interests of ensuring performance on a mass scale, maintaining system stability, and fostering network trust."
Developers had liability at all times.
You cannot make an illegal contract nor an illegal term in a license
An illegal term in a contract is "Void ab initio" - it never existed.
That is a separate issue - but a law is lawful until a court states it is not
It may be immoral - that is a separate issue
Contract is not about morality
CSW
Mar 23, 2021
https://metanet-icu.slack.com/archives/C5131HKFX/p1616502135369000?thread_ts=1616502135.369000&cid=C5131HKFX
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