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ISP Liability Not The Answer To Illegal Net Activity
from the misplaced-blame dept
In the fight against illegal net activity, some argue that ISPs should be held responsible for what happens on their network. While ISPs here face no such liability, it's the opposite in the UK. The head of the ISP Clara.net is fighting back, arguing that there's no way for an ISP to be an arbiter of the law, due to lack of staff and lack of qualifications. Not only does this make the job of the ISP much harder, it's also a bad system for its clients. Just to be safe, ISPs will be more inclined to take down material that gets complaints. Because the company is doing the government's work, in deciding what is legal and what is not, it would be legitimate to call this censorship (unlike here, when companies restrict certain material, in which case it's just called doing business). The main problem with ISP liability is the obvious, that they're not the one committing illegal acts. If businesses were routinely held liable for the illegal things customers did with their products, a lot of commerce wouldn't get done. While it may be worth exploring how the fight against illegal activity on the net can be decentralized, ISP liability is a poor method.
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Guns
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Re: Guns
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What about highways and sidewalks?
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Re: Guns
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ISP self policing is the only solution to spam.
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How about SBC?
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You can fight back - http://www.bluesecurity.com/blue-frog/
Bluefrog a) posts 'leave me alone' messages to the people advertised in the soam and b) BlueSec alert the FBI/software owners or what ever if the object is illegal, as well as get ISPs to take down servers.
I've got SpamAssassin sending anything over a score of 20 to them for my whole domain :-)
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Re: ISP self policing is the only solution to spam
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Re: ISP self policing is the only solution to spam
Uhh... no. The group with the most power to stop spam is...
...drumroll please...
USERS! If they would stop opening and even following links in spam, we wouldn't have a problem. However, since some users pay attention to this crap and even start a business relationship because of it, it's still a reasonable business plan.
Stop spam in your own backyard.
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isp-spam and censor
refuse to look at the news rag about another two headed dog born.look closer there will be a mag. called LIFE .Buy It it may be the only way for you to get one.
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Re: What about highways and sidewalks?
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Re: ISP self policing is the only solution to spam
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And just when do you see USERS rising up against the tide of spam?
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The Devil's in the Details
For the direct act of, let's say spamming, I'm not sure how many people whould hold the ISP responsible initially and most everybody should agree that whoever is doing the spamming is primarily to blame.
If however, enough people complained to the ISP about their abusive user, and the ISP failed to respond in any way and the spammer continued their activities, it should be clear that the ISP failed in their responsibility to promote responsible use of their own resources. Namely the IP addresses that the spammer usually does not own, but rather leases which is also nullifies most of the arguments about guns and automobile owners since at that point the manufacturers can no longer take responsibility for their products if used incorrectly in my opinion.
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Fax.com sent millions, made $50 million a year. Refused to pay their FCC fine of about $14 million, and Kevin Katz fled to South Africa.
If the telcos were responsible, jointly and severably they would have shut off those phone lines.
Now the junkfaxers are back in business, faxing daily, still illegal, and they are hiding behind fake corporations, fake addresses, etc.
The only players who are legit are the telcos.
I say make them responsible, if they know.
They are getting paid, after all.
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What about junkfax?
Fax.com sent millions, made $50 million a year. Refused to pay their FCC fine of about $14 million, and Kevin Katz fled to South Africa.
If the telcos were responsible, jointly and severably they would have shut off those phone lines.
Now the junkfaxers are back in business, faxing daily, still illegal, and they are hiding behind fake corporations, fake addresses, etc.
The only players who are legit are the telcos.
I say make them responsible, if they know.
They are getting paid, after all.
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Every day when they yell at me. And every day I give them the same speach. And every day my boss asks me about sending out his own spam. And every day I get to bitch slap him.
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NO
If a user is hogging bandwidth, its none of the ISP business what they are doing but just that they are hogging and it can be stopped.
ISPs getting into the spam filtering business was a bad idea. Now it will be a downward spiral until the only ISP left is Aohell.
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NO
If a user is hogging bandwidth, its none of the ISP business what they are doing but just that they are hogging and it can be stopped.
ISPs getting into the spam filtering business was a bad idea. Now it will be a downward spiral until the only ISP left is Aohell.
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