As we have explained, the reason Kaspersky falls within the statutory definition of "access software provider" is that it is a provider of software that permits users to "filter, screen, allow, or disallow content. In this situation, Zango submits, subparagraph B , which extends immunity to Internet computer services that provide filtering tools to others, is not applicable. By providing its anti-malware software and malware definition update services, Kaspersky both enables and makes available the technical means to restrict access to malware.
Users choose to purchase, install, and utilize the Kaspersky software. Regardless of whether Zango is correct in its allegation that Kaspersky does not provide users of Kaspersky products a choice to override the security software and download and use Zango, there is no question that Kaspersky has "made available" for its users the technical means to restrict access to items that Kaspersky has defined as malware.
Zango has waived any argument on appeal that Kaspersky does not consider Zango's software to be "otherwise [] objectionable," which is one of the specified statutory categories. See Perfect 10, Inc. If a Kaspersky user who has bought and installed Kaspersky's software to block malware is unhappy with the Kaspersky software's performance, he can uninstall Kaspersky and buy blocking software from another company that is less restrictive or more compatible with the user's needs.
Recourse to competition is consistent with the statute's express policy of relying on the market for the development of interactive computer services. As Zango notes, the district court based its dismissal exclusively on subparagraph B.
Zango urges us not to affirm on the alternative basis of subparagraph A , maintaining that a triable issue of fact exists as to Kaspersky's good faith. However, we have no need to consider subparagraph A immunity because we agree with the district court's disposition under subparagraph B.
To the extent that Zango in reply raises a different issue—whether subparagraph B , which has no good faith language, should be construed implicitly to have a good faith component like subparagraph A explicitly has—the argument is waived. See Eberle, F. For present purposes, we note that subparagraph B comes with only one constraint: the protection afforded extends only to providers who "enable or make available to The district court correctly held that Kaspersky is a provider of an "interactive computer service" as defined in the Communications Decency Act of We conclude that a provider of access tools that filter, screen, allow, or disallow content [] that the provider or user considers obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable is protected from liability by 47 U.
As its software qualifies, Kaspersky is entitled to good samaritan immunity. I concur with my colleagues that the plain language of the Communications Decency Act's "good samaritan" immunity provision, 47 U. The risk inheres in the disjunctive language of the statute—which permits blocking of "material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected"—and the unbounded catchall phrase, "otherwise objectionable.
Doe v. GTE Corp. A pop-up window appears, and the user may "allow" the content over KIS's warning by clicking the appropriate button. Other blocking software might be less accommodating to the user's preferences, either not providing an override option or making it difficult to use.
Consider, for example, a web browser configured by its provider to filter third-party search engine results so they would never yield websites critical of the browser company or favorable to its competitors.
Such covert, anti-competitive blocking arguably fits into the statutory category of immune actions—those taken by an access software provider to provide the technical means to block content the provider deems objectionable.
Computer users are of course always free to replace their blocking software with software more in line with their preferences, and this market-based solution finds support in the statute. But my concern is that blocking software providers—providers of web browsers being the most convenient and familiar example —could employ their software to block content for anticompetitive purposes without the user's knowledge. If users are unaware of undesired blocking, they would not know to switch to different software or even to complain to the blocked provider that they are having trouble accessing its material, thereby tipping off the content provider such as Zango alleges happened here when its users complained.
In Congress' judgment, immunity is necessary to facilitate users' access to blocking software that makes Internet use "safer" than it otherwise would be. It would be an abuse of this immunity to apply it to blocking activity of [] the kind I have hypothesized here. Nevertheless, until Congress clarifies the statute or a future litigant makes the case for a possible limitation, I agree that Kaspersky qualifies for immunity under this broadly worded statute.
See Zango, Inc. PC Tools Pty Ltd. See id. Zango did not admit to wrongful conduct; however, the decree bars Zango from using any software except for "Hotbar" owned or controlled before January 1, to display advertising or otherwise communicate with a consumer's computer. The decree also requires Zango to obtain express consent before installing its programs on consumers' computers, and to provide customers with an effective means of uninstalling its programs.
The earliest the consent order could terminate is See 47 U. Paragraph 1 pertains to the treatment of a publisher or speaker and has nothing to do with "material," whereas subparagraph A pertains to and describes material.
H Aug. An amicus curiae generally cannot raise new arguments on appeal, United States v. Gementera, F. See Eberle v. City of Anaheim, F. Because Zango has not argued that the statute limits the material a provider of an interactive computer service may properly consider "objectionable," that question is not before us. We do not consider it, or Kaspersky's alternative argument that Zango fails on the merits to state a claim under Washington law. Zango's amicus argued that the principle of ejusdem generis requires us to define "otherwise objectionable" by reference to the statute's other descriptions of objectionable material.
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