ABSTRACT
Liability for Service Providers The wide varieties of activities on the Internet spawned by creative businesses offer many types of social, recreational, hobby, communications, and business functions that work well and scale globally. In the early days of the Internet, it was possible to categorize service providers by the types of online activities offered, but soon “one-stop shopping” firms like America Online (AOL) created services with many types of interactions. Many of those online still use services like AOL, Microsoft’s Live, Google+, Yahoo!, and major telecommunications firms’ portals for a wide variety of functions, such as Internet access, e-mail, social networking, news, voiceover-IP (Internet protocol) telephony, chat, instant messaging, searching, and others. Social networking sites have become major portals, as have large online retailers like Amazon.
