RE: Beware: a very bad precedent set

[Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott () oicr on ca>]

that is so sad....  makes me very angry reading this.

-g


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From: nanog () wbsconnect com [nanog () wbsconnect com]
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 5:35 PM
To: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Beware: a very bad precedent set

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Louis-Vuitton-Awarded-324-bw-3561952192.html?x=0&.v=1

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Louis Vuitton Malletier, S.A. (“Louis Vuitton”) part of LVMH, the world’s leading luxury 
group, today announced that it has won the lawsuit it filed in 2007 against the California based Internet hosting 
business of Akanoc Solutions, Inc., Managed Solutions Group, Inc., and Steven Chen (the “Akanoc Defendants”) in the 
United States District Court, Northern District of California (San Jose). On August 28th, the jury found the Akanoc 
Defendants liable for contributory trademark and copyright infringement, and awarded statutory damages in the amount of 
$32,400,000.00. The court is expected shortly to issue a permanent injunction banning the Akanoc Defendants from 
hosting websites that sell counterfeit or infringing Louis Vuitton goods.

Any and all nefarious activity alleged in this lawsuit was conducted by a customer, of a customer, of a customer yet 
the hosting provider was found liable, not the actual criminal manufacturing and selling the fakes.

We had all better watch our backs since it seems that claims of not being able to inspected tens of millions of packets 
per second is no longer a viable excuse.