Originally Posted by
RichardInSF
I bet this gets knocked down on appeal. If it stands, it could apply to all websites that act as intermediaries, including for example temp work sites (Mechanical Turk et al) and even AirBnB. Maybe even sites like KickStarter!
Sounds like some superior court judge got rather carried away.
Whether it will or not is fairly random IMHO. However, the judgment accords well with how its customers use, and think about, Uber. They rent an Uber, not Joe with the Nissan. They pay Uber and Uber sets the price. The only personal bit of service is done by the driver, much the same as a bus, a train or, dare I say it, an airline.