[51006] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Major Labels v. Backbones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Majdi S. Abbas)
Sat Aug 17 22:34:32 2002
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 19:33:45 -0700
From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net>
Cc: NANOG@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20020817210405.GA3282@puck.nether.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 05:04:05PM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote:
> > --The service provider must not determine the recipients of the material.
>
> One could argue (in theory) that a routing-table lookup
> may satisfy this.
I'm not so sure. Generally speaking, a destination network is a
given ISP, not a given individual. And it's highly impractical for an ISP
to know the /individual/ a packet is destined for from the address.
> > --The material must be transmitted with no modification to its content.
>
> Same theory here also, where one decrements ttl, since we are
> talking about ip packets here.
I believe they're referring to copyrighted material which is
wholly contained in the payload of the packets involved.
> Either way, this is an interesting test case and I do
> hope it receives immediate dismissal. This would be like asking
> the phone company to turn off phone service for people that arrange
> drug deals or similar. Not something that I see happening.
I have to say I expect this one to be disposed of pretty quickly,
but we'll see...
--msa
