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MPDev · #99 12-11-2006, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by smacklan

I agree there are obligations, however I am not an attorney and don't know what Jelsoft's legal liability is. I'm sure they employ a fine team of attorneys who have advised them long ago they are not liable or this would not still be occuring...just my guess though.

I would suspect that nobody has asked for a legal opinion in this regard; because if they had they would have greater safeguards in place, including the removal of members known to commit fraud on their site.

The issue here isn't one of not being aware of the fraud, it's one of being aware of it and not taking any action to prevent it from occurring again. You can't offer a service and then knowingly allow people to use it to commit a crime without a reasonable chance of liability on your part.

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