What is a Proxy Server?

What are the consequences and what kind of protective measures could the owner of a proxy server adopt against possible copyright infringement problems?

  • A proxy server downloads html contents from web sites and serves them to third-parties. Web sites may explicitly prohibit in their Terms of Service the retransmission of their contents to a third party. Thus, the owner of the proxy server may be infringing them.

  • Answer:

    Website data already passes through a number of backbone links and ISP networks and other possible links before it arrives at the users computer. A proxy server that does not store the data doesn't have any legal concerns beyond what an ISP would have.

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