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RE: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs?
From: "Benjamin J. Carrasco" <carrasco () digitalrealm net>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 05:51:28 -0400
Blackholing the RIAA and hating them is pointless, that is what they
are
there for. Blackholing them accomplishes nothing. If you want to cause change you need to go after the labels. The
labels
are the member organizations which fund the RIAA. It's the labels who
need to
be stopped, the RIAA is just their puppet and shield.
However, blackholing is effective in regards to anti-piracy bots that rove the Internet like web spiders attempting to discover copyright violations by verifying P2P data that has been collected elsewhere. Since March of 2001, we have used complaints originating from anti-piracy organizations hired by various labels, most notable Sony, to maintain our own BGP blacklists. Since we have a significant xDSL customer base, we frequently received copyright infringement complaints from these organizations. This policy has eliminated those complaints. We were able to reduce legal exposure and reclaim some of the protection once afforded by open carriage by preventing these intrusive verification tests from even occurring. However, we do act on all complaints that we receive. Ben
Current thread:
- Re: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs? Steven M. Bellovin (Aug 21)
- introducer trust model, Was: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) Karsten W. Rohrbach (Aug 22)
- Re: introducer trust model, Was: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) Scott Francis (Aug 22)
- www.habeas.com (was Re: introducer trust model, Was: Eat this ...) Paul Vixie (Aug 22)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs? Benjamin J. Carrasco (Aug 22)
- RE: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs? Gregory Hicks (Aug 22)
- RE: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs? No One (Aug 22)
- Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs? Stewart, William C (Bill), RTLSL (Aug 24)
- introducer trust model, Was: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) Karsten W. Rohrbach (Aug 22)