Second of all COPPA has basically never been enforced on non-commercial websites. In fact it has rarely been enforced at all. That's because it's pretty much impossible to enforce except on extremely high-profile websites. You talk about how we're supposed to live "in the real world", but in the real world COPPA is almost null and void.
So we should break a law, because it has rarely been enforced? Just because it hasn't doesn't mean it won't.
Sage advice from a friend of Jim: So put your tinfoil hat back in the closet, open your eyes to the truth, and realize that the government is in fact causing austismal cancer with it's 9/11 fluoride vaccinations of your water supply.
You are being unusually ridiculous with this. The website is approximately one million times more likely to get sued for copyright infringement than something like COPPA. After all, we do distribute videos with copyrighted music (often full-length tracks), which without the shadow of a doubt infringes copyright. (Fair use laws do not allow distributing full pieces of music, not even significant portions.) The graphics in the videos might also be subject to copyright protection (although a case might be made for fair use there).
If you are so concerned about lawsuits, you should start from the copyright infringement issues first, as that's by far the most likely target.
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DarkKobold wrote:
Dada wrote:
Second of all COPPA has basically never been enforced on non-commercial websites. In fact it has rarely been enforced at all. That's because it's pretty much impossible to enforce except on extremely high-profile websites. You talk about how we're supposed to live "in the real world", but in the real world COPPA is almost null and void.
So we should break a law, because it has rarely been enforced? Just because it hasn't doesn't mean it won't.
It's generally understood that we're not breaking the law because it has never been proven or tested in court that sites like this one apply to COPPA. Have you ever heard of a site who got taken down because of this? Ever? So, even though this has never happened, has never been an issue and has never troubled anybody, supposedly we should preemptively prevent certain people from having access to this site just in case. You know, "to be on the safe side".
No, sorry dude, but this just doesn't make sense. You don't prevent people from accessing a site because of some law that doesn't apply to us and never gets enforced anyway.
Hey, the legality of x264 has been contested because it's an implementation of the patent protected H.264 standard. Those are patents that have actually been enforced in the past. Should we stop encoding our movies using x264 for that reason? Hey, it's never been enforced on that level before, but let's be on the safe side, right?
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Yes, we're stopping this.
It turns out Brushy acted exactly how the user in question parents' wanted us to act.
Case closed.
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