Re: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet

[Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com>]

A CDN is a hosting company. It is the logical continuation and evolution of
what an httpd hosting/server colo company was twenty years ago, but with
more geographical scale and a great deal more automation tools.

I have never in my life seen a medium to large-sized hosting company that
didn't have a ToS reserving the right to discontinue service at any time
for arbitrary reasons.


On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 7:28 PM Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org> wrote:

> Valdis,
>
> A CDN is very much an ISP. It is providing transport for its customers
> from arbitrary Internet destinations, to the customer’s content. The
> caching done by a CDN is incidental to this transport, in accordance with
> the DMCA.
>
> The alternative is that you believe CDNs are not protected by safe Harbor.
> Is that the case?
>
> -mel via cell
>
> > On Aug 5, 2019, at 4:02 PM, Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks () vt edu>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 05 Aug 2019 20:40:43 -0000, Mel Beckman said:
> > > The key misunderstanding on your part is the phrase “on your servers”.
> ISPs
> > > acting as conduits do not, by definition (in the DMCA), store anything
> on
> > > servers.
> >
> > Note that ISPs whose business is 100% "acting as conduits" are in the
> minority.
> > Hint:  The DMCA has the text about data stored on ISP servers because
> many ISPs
> > aren't mere conduits.  And this thread got started regarding a CDN,
> which is very much
> > all about storing data on servers.....