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Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue
From: Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:45:22 +0100
On 27/09/2011 19:31, John Levine wrote:
For case law confirming that similar language in the Stored Communication Act doesn't apply to data on your own equipment, see the recently dismissed cases of Holomaxx vs. Microsoft and Holomaxx vs. Yahoo.
In Europe, things are slightly different. Traffic snooping is considered to be a breach of consumer data protection directives and is treated accordingly. One of the more interesting cases was BT + Phorm:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorm#European_Commission_case_against_UK_over_Phorm
While the case never went to court, all parties backed down and there hasn't been a similar case since then. There is another aspect to this: european IP service providers can claim "mere conduit" status (similar to US "common carrier") under the terms of the Electronic Commerce Directive 2000/31/EC (as transcribed into local legislation), provided during the process of transmission they do "not select or modify the information contained in the transmission". It would seem possible that changing DNS packets in transit could come under the scope of "select or modify", thereby leaving the IP service provider liable for the information transmitted. This can act as a deterrent to service providers who feel that modifying data in-flight is a good idea. Nick
Current thread:
- Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue, (continued)
- Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue Brett Frankenberger (Sep 28)
- Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 28)
- Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue Rubens Kuhl (Sep 27)
- Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue Matthew Palmer (Sep 27)
- Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue William Allen Simpson (Sep 27)
- Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 27)
- Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue Rubens Kuhl (Sep 27)
- Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue David Miller (Sep 27)
- Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue William Allen Simpson (Sep 27)
- Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue John Levine (Sep 27)
- Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue Nick Hilliard (Sep 27)
- Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue JC Dill (Sep 27)
- Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue Robert Bonomi (Sep 27)
- Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue Martin Millnert (Sep 28)
- Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue Jimmy Hess (Sep 28)
- RE: Nxdomain redirect revenue Schiller, Heather A (Sep 27)
- Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue William Allen Simpson (Sep 27)