[46531] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Stealth p2p network in Kazaa and Morpheus?....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Borchers, Mark)
Wed Apr 3 11:08:24 2002
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From: "Borchers, Mark" <mborchers@splitrock.net>
To: 'Anthony D Cennami' <acennami@netscape.net>,
"Nanog@Merit. Edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 10:07:55 -0600
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Anthony D Cennami wrote:
>
> You aren't maintaining anybodies distributed server farm. You're
> maintaining the infrastructure that your clients pay you to use, and
> they're allowing this application to function in the manner
> described in
> plain english within the license agreement.
That's a slight stretch.
However, your point about an AUP is well taken. Perhaps networks
will now want to consider a prohibition along the lines of "Distribution
of content by a third party via a customer's connection may be blocked
at the sole discretion of the provider, or may be grounds for termination
of service."