[107696] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lamar Owen)
Thu Sep 11 08:50:58 2008
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:50:24 -0400
From: Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20080911102329.GA8928@pwns.ms>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Thursday 11 September 2008 06:23:29 list-nanog@pwns.ms wrote:
> This is not a court. In court, if you are determined guilty a large
> punishment may be exacted
Depeering is not a large punishment?
In the internet world, mass depeering / de-transitting like we've see in this
instance is akin to capital punishment. By vigilantes. The US Old West
redux.
But even in a court of law in a criminal case a defense must be made,
otherwise the least sort of evidence of culpability can produce conviction;
the defendant must at least put on a defense to invalidate the culpatory
evidence. So when culpatory evidence is presented in these cases, requesting
exculpatory evidence is very reasonable.
Lack of a defense in a civil case will virtually guarantee a favorable
judgment for the plaintiff, however.
