[tahoe-dev] any progress on rebooting the Test Grid?

[James A. Donald]

>> It's the "Safe Harbor" provision of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act,
>> codified in 17 USC section 512.  Basically what it says is that if you
>> operate an on-line service and someone uploads material to it which some
>> copyright owner claims is infringing, you can completely shield yourself
>> from all civil and criminal liability if you immediately take it down.  If
>> in fact it was not infringing, the person who uploaded it can send you a
>> letter saying so and then you can put it back up, without fear of any
>> liability, while the uploader and the copyright owner duke it out.

Being a distributed system, there should be no one person who runs the 
system and can take it down, but it should be possible for any one 
participant to comply, and himself take it down, with the file becoming 
inaccessible if enough participants choose to take it down.