[118605] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: DMCA takedowns of networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Sat Oct 24 10:40:15 2009
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:39:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <51C66083768C2949A7EB14910C78B017A5E351@embgsr24.pateam.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Brandt, Ralph wrote:
> HE certainly was right in shutting down that site. It had copyright
> infringement. That they took down other sites is reprehensible unless
> they lacked the technical capability to do otherwise. (The question
> then arises, should they be in business if that is the case?)
Not sure how much I believe of the article and its lack of detail and
chopped quotes...but did HE really disconnect an entire downstream network
over a DMCA notice, or did they null route a /32 that was used by a
customer to host hundreds of virtual web sites?
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