Rent a car, commit a crime, boom — rental company is on the hook apparently. Moronic.
The rental company, on the other hand, is more than willing to turn you in to not be considered liable. Which they probably would be if they impeded an investigation.
Your modified analogy is broken, since it is impossible for an encryption service to provide the information being subpoenaed by definition. You wouldn’t claim Hertz is “impeding an investigation” by failing to use telepathy. Damn but authoritarians are stupid.
Again, what’s happening here is that a service is occasionally abused and the service provider is being held liable. End of story. Nobody is impeding investigations. You guys are either technologically illiterate or arguing in bad faith.
So... you're saying your own analogy is disanalogous...
The analogy works if you lease or rent.
Rent a car, commit a crime, boom — rental company is on the hook apparently. Moronic.
The rental company, on the other hand, is more than willing to turn you in to not be considered liable. Which they probably would be if they impeded an investigation.
Your modified analogy is broken, since it is impossible for an encryption service to provide the information being subpoenaed by definition. You wouldn’t claim Hertz is “impeding an investigation” by failing to use telepathy. Damn but authoritarians are stupid.
Again, what’s happening here is that a service is occasionally abused and the service provider is being held liable. End of story. Nobody is impeding investigations. You guys are either technologically illiterate or arguing in bad faith.
So... you're saying your own analogy is disanalogous...
Most analogies are, its better to stick to facts