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more on upon suspicion .. Verizon to Police Web Customers To Protect Disney From Piracy -- a response from Dan Bricklin
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 08:54:52 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> Date: September 25, 2005 10:37:40 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net>Cc: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>, Bob Frankston <Bob2-19-0501 () bobf frankston com>, Tim Onosko <onosko () gmail com>, Dan Bricklin <Dan () Bricklin com> Subject: Re: [IP] upon suspicion .. Verizon to Police Web Customers To Protect Disney From Piracy -- a response from Dan Bricklin
This paragraph, as I read it, also says Verizon may terminate your service based on suspicion or allegation that you have infringed upon Disney's copyrights, not actual proof as determined by a third party such as a court of law.
Ah. Which means that it's probably/possibly just become much easier to get someone's Verizon service terminated. I can think of any number of methods which would readily create the appearance that a given Verizon customer is engaged in just this sort of activity -- and I'm sure I'm not the only one. What a pity that Verizon doesn't put even a fraction of this sort of effort into abating the non-stop torrent [1] of spam that's been gushing out of their network for the last several years. I suppose it's much more important to please the copyright thugs at Disney than it is to worry about the abuse of the entire rest of the Internet. ---Rsk [1] 3,156 different spam-spewing Verizon hosts noted so far in 2005 and that's just on a test server. Numbers from a production box would be a LOT higher. And that's before we get into Verizon's use of callbacks, aka "a free, highly scalable spam and DoS attack support service". ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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