alt Hacker NewsThis is pretty well trod legally. By the user taking a specific action, it makes the user responsible. Comma.ai uses the same technique. Technically their self driving hardware comes with no software. You have to click a button and point it at their GitHub to get the software on it, but it's automatic after that.
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CaliforniaKarl • yesterday at 8:08 PM
I forget, doesn't Audacity also have you do this, if you want to be able to export projects as MP3?
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micromacrofoot • yesterday at 9:13 PM
winamp did something similar, you actually had to whip the llamas ass yourself
We lost a Supreme Court case in 2005 on "inducement liability" (not a familiar copyright doctrine before that).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM_Studios,_Inc._v._Grokster,....
I'm not sure if this doctrine has continued to be applied to anything else.