Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them?

["Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG" <nanog () nanog org>]

Bad wording on my part.  I wasn't trying to imply their statement was
true--just a bit of humor.

-A

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 6:09 PM Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:

> On Nov 22, 2019, at 17:47 , Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 8:52 AM Blake Hudson <blake () ispn net> wrote:
>
> > This is absolutely an issue with Xbox Live/Sony PSN or RBLs used by mail
> > servers for reputation purposes. For better or worse these systems equate
> > one IPv4 address == one user (and possibly one IPv6 /64 == one user). My
> > opinion is that this may be a reasonable or "good enough" assumption
>
> Talk to someone who has been sued for downloading or sharing movies.
> They'll swear on their own grave that one IP can never equal one user. ;)
>
> -A
>
>
> I’ll swear it’s a horrible assumption.
>
> Personally, I use many IP addresses each day.
> Some of them are also used by others.
> Some of them are not.
>
> Equating IP Address <-> Person relationships as being anything remotely
> resembling 1:1 is beyond absurd. To do so with an IPv6 /64 is even more so.
>
> Considering it to be reasonable or “good enough” is so far from valid I
> don’t even know where to begin.
>
> Owen