The Good Samaritan provision of the Communications Decency Act established immunity from liability for third party content on grounds of libel or slander, and the DMCA established that ISPs which comply with the DMCA would not be liable for the copyright violations of third parties on their network.
The Good Samaritan provision of the Communications Decency Act established immunity from liability for third party content on grounds of libel or slander. ISPs would not be liable for the copyright violations of third parties on their network. This ISPs comply with the DMCA. The DMCA established this.