[193732] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Fri Feb 17 03:29:10 2017
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Todd Crane <todd.crane@n5tech.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 09:29:04 +0100
In-Reply-To: <153FC54F-1180-40C1-A7C0-7D1C9F870D90@n5tech.com> (Todd Crane's
message of "Thu, 16 Feb 2017 21:04:24 -0700")
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
* Todd Crane:
> I am not familiar with Cogent=E2=80=99s architecture but why couldn=E2=80=
=99t they
> just null route the IP address at their edge routers from within
> Spain? I am not a lawyer but from what I understand, since the Spanish
> government has zero say on what goes on outside of their borders,
Of course they do, see the arrest of Augusto Pinochet.
Due to the nature of mass copyright violation, it is likely that these
sites violate the rights of Spanish copyright holders, and if such a
violated party obtains a court order against an ISP, I see no reason
why the violations should go on everywhere except Spain.
