The Safe Harbor of the Internet and the Bookstore Owner

The safe harbor discussion as it applies to the internet, starts in the early 19 nineties with legal cases against compuserv and prodigy. If you are a distributor, like a bookstore or warehouse, you're not responsible for the things written in the stuff you distributed. In stratton oakmont versus prodigy services, prodigy was deemed by the court to be a publisher because they had an element of editorial control over what was published. That's kind of the idea of ct eight two 30 that we'll get to, which is like he we don't want the cure to be worse than the disease.