[117080] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Beware: a very bad precedent set
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Hicks)
Mon Aug 31 18:41:31 2009
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:41:58 +0100
From: Peter Hicks <peter.hicks@poggs.co.uk>
To: Bret Clark <bclark@spectraaccess.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A9C4ECE.4010501@spectraaccess.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Bret Clark wrote:
> How does this stuff ever make it to court??? Why is it an ISP is
> responsible for policing it's customers? I'm constantly getting called
> up from scammers trying to offering me bogus warranty insurance for cars
> I don't own...does that mean I can sue Verizon because they are letting
> scammers use their network?
>
> It doesn't mention anything in the article,. but I'm wondering if the
> ISP received a court order to shut down the customer and ignored it,
> then I can see why the ISP lost the case.
There's a world of difference between proactive policing and acting
reactively on receipt of notice that your customers are doing specific
badness... or not.
Poggs
