[118598] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DMCA takedowns of networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bret Clark)
Sat Oct 24 09:27:22 2009
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:26:30 -0400
From: Bret Clark <bclark@spectraaccess.com>
To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4AE2FA5F.4090403@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
BS to say the least...first the US Chamber of Commerce is not a
government organization. And even if there were what right does anyone
have to tread on Freedom of Speech?!? Was there a court order?
I'd really be interested in know what strong arm tactic they used with HE.
William Allen Simpson wrote:
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/23/chamber-of-commerce-stron_n_332087.html
>
>
> Hurricane Electric obeyed the Chamber's letter and shut down the spoof
> site. But in the process, they shut down hundreds of other sites
> maintained by May First / People Link, the Yes Men's direct provider
> (Hurricane Electric is its "upstream" provider).
>
> What's going on? Since when are we required to take down an entire
> customer's net for one of their subscriber's so-called infringement?
>
> Heck, it takes years to agree around here to take down a peering to an
> obviously criminal enterprise network....
>
> My first inclination would be to return the request (rejected), saying
> it was sent to the wrong provider.
>
