Questions tagged [internet]
For questions about the internet. Please ensure a tag for the jurisdiction is also included. This tag should not be used when the question does not crucially hinge on internet usage or involvement.
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If a user posts illegal content on a service hosted by an entity, who is liable? [duplicate]
Suppose a user posts problematic content on a service hosted by an entity (a hobbyist or a small business). The content is stored in databases provided by the entity. This entity may be storing these ...
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What's to stop domain registrars from price gouging renewals?
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John Smith launches a social media startup called Turquoise Cow. He buys the Internet domain name "turquoise-cow.com" from GoDaddy. The price is $20 per year.
Years later, Turquoise ...
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Billed as a result of automatic renewal, can I, as a EU citizen, get my money back?
I signed up on a seemingly reputable website for making resumes and was prompted to enter a 7-day paid trial in order to download and use the resume I already made in the web app.
Now, after 7 days, I ...
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Can the federal government prohibit the publication of software it does not like?
There's a bill scheduled to pass the House today that imposes a $5,000 fine every time someone updates TikTok from a web service you provide. (It's not clear to me whether this only applies if you are ...
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Is it legal for internet service providers in the EU to severely and systematically undercut advertised bandwidths?
I have a new mobile data plan with a contractually agreed-upon bandwidth limit of "up to 3 Mbit/s". To my knowledge, the "up to" only accounts for unavoidable reductions in ...
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What are the risks (if any) of not having terms and conditions and a privacy policy on a web app?
I'm making a web app which:
is a personal project,
is open source,
is completely free,
doesn't have any kind of login system (users can't create accounts),
doesn't collect personal user data,
doesn't ...
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Can I use the MIT license as Terms and Conditions on a personal project
I'm making a web app which:
is a personal project,
is open source,
is completely free,
doesn't have any kind of login system (users can't create accounts),
doesn't collect personal user data,
doesn't ...
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Can I be held liable for a client's private file upload? [Bad Question]
I posted a question on Code Review (link below) on whether a webpage that takes a client's file and then displays (mirrors) it back to them (only stored as a temporary file, and only returned to the ...
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Is it permissible for online forums to not delete possibly illegal user content unless ordered by a court?
In the United States, as some related answers point out (like this and this), Section 230 (47 U.S.C. § 230) protects online forum providers from both civil and criminal liability for user content they ...
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Can a school force me to use cloud services I don't agree to?
I am currently studying and my school only allows certain cloud services from a third-party for assignment submissions.
I do not agree to the TOS of such cloud services (cloud storage services) and ...
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Web scraping legal question
I am based in Germany and have a question regarding web scraping and how this is legal for existing sites.
Two examples:
google.com they have a search engine and scrape the internet. They do not only ...
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Is it okay to create an application that stores youtube & spotify links with showing the thumbnails of the content related to the links? [closed]
I am creating an app where users can save the links of the contents they like in the app. The app fetches the thumbnail image of the related content and shows them along with the length of the content ...
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Section 184 of the Canadian Criminal Code and Foreign Actors
This is inspired by recent events, but I will not be naming names.
My understanding of section 184 is that people in Canada are allowed to intercept communications by any means provided that they ...
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When does transmitting something create a copy of it?
If I send a bunch of Internet packets containing the bytes of a copyrighted work to you, privately, is a "copy" of the work being made? And if so, by who?
Say we're talking about a song. ...
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How to prevent legal issues when allowing anonymous users to upload arbitrary content?
A website like https://cloudconvert.com allows any anonymous user to upload arbitrary video/audio/file and convert it to another format. It seems to save the file temporarily for 2 hours before ...
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