[51052] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Major Labels v. Backbones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles Fidelman)
Mon Aug 19 16:33:59 2002
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:33:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@civicnet.org>
To: <NANOG@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20020819093642.04285cf0@pop3.vo.cnchost.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, JC Dill wrote:
> >rigorous fight against the RIAA since they would mostly be defending
> >the rights of people and organizations that they don't do business
>
> If one voluntarily caves in, they will almost certainly see their sales
> plummet. Would you buy bandwidth from a provider who has caved in to a
also keep in mind that most of the large backbones are also common
carriers - if not for Internet, certainly for telephone - so they might
well fight the issue on principle
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