[50287] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Smith)
Wed Jul 24 15:55:28 2002
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:54:45 -0700
From: Michael Smith <mksmith@noanet.net>
To: Adam Rothschild <asr@asr.org>, James Thomason <james@divide.org>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020724143129.A59162@latency.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 7/24/02 11:31 AM, "Adam Rothschild" <asr@asr.org> wrote:
>
> On 2002-07-24-14:10:00, James Thomason <james@divide.org> wrote:
>> If this legislation is passed, they certainly will earn Null0 on
>> mine.
>
> Unless, of course, the RIAA, MPAA, and friends carry out their
> cracking through throw-away dial and DSL accounts, like they
> purportedly use now to troll for copyright offenders, and send
> automated nasty-grams to their upstream providers.
>
> Carrying out their cracking from a uniform netblock or AS, which we
> could all identify and filter, would be too easy. They're flagrant,
> but they're not stupid.
>
The Business Software Alliance appears to be using this technique to flush
out people distributing their Members' software via Gnutella and others. I
have received the obligatory nasty-gram advising me as the "owner" of an IP
(not taking into account the IP has been allocated and then assigned to
consecutive downstream providers) that I could be held liable for the
actions of this particular user.
Mike
