(Well, a BBS is more akin to a website, but the shifted argument is still valid if one thinks &quot;web 2.0&quot; is a good thing. And MAPHIA seems irrelevant due to its significant findings of editorial control)<p>&quot;Frena&quot; wasn&#x27;t necessarily a <i>correct</i> decision, especially given the extreme power imbalance between parties. Would the same decision be reached if the defendant had been a well capitalized business? Similarly, the modern inverse of an individual file sharer trying to hide behind the DMCA likely wouldn&#x27;t fly.<p>The decision certainly goes against what one would expect from general legal principles, but I suppose that&#x27;s inevitable in the face of cancer like intent-free criminality. The same reasoning would have indicted him for a cd-r tossed onto his lawn.