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Originally Posted by Daithi
The yellow pages provides phone numbers, addresses, and advertising for legitimate businesses. This isn't even remotely analogous to Rapidshare's facilitation of pirated books.
Rapidshare is far closer in character to the pawn shop.
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Not at all.
Pawnshops actually SEE THE GOODS they accept. For that matter, they see who brings the goods in.
Phone companies solicit the placement of adds, often by phone, mail, or over the internet. If over the internet the entire process is automated.
Only if someone wants a specific illustrated add with photos does a physical person have to talk to another, and
in zero cases does the phone company inspect the service or products of the business. Nor should there be any requirement for such an inspection.
The pawnshop analogy therefore flies about as well as a Jersey cow.