On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 7:45 am, Dori wrote:
On 8/3/05, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com>
wrote:
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What would be the legal implications of serving
some content from
outside of the United States, in comparison to merely running them
through a local caching proxy?
Probably censorship. I remember the hassles Google and Yahoo had to go
through because of French laws. Believe it or not the US probably
still has the "freer" speech out there. I suppose it would be OK if we
could move them back to the US in case of trouble. Which would mean
not having the local chapters associated with the content somehow. At
the very least some lawyer out there should make sure the GFDL is fine
in the proposed hosting country.
Well, if this is the case, should we also make sure that the db is
constantly kept synced back to the US in case the country just goes in
and rips it out? Not saying france will, but another country might.