[51240] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Wed Aug 21 23:14:12 2002
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 03:11:58 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
To: Nigel Clarke <nigel@forever-networks.com>
Cc: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>,
Jerry Eyers <jeyers@rebma.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <HGEEKCPKMCLEIOHFGKCNOEPLCBAA.nigel@forever-networks.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Nigel Clarke wrote:
>
> Start now, do whatever it takes.
>
> Amongst the paperwork passed to congress, RIAA must have indicated where
> it's hackers would work from. Why not start there?
>
> NANOG should not sit on this.
>
> Trust me, if RIAA tried to function without email and internet access for a
> day or two I think they would get the message.
Surprisingly enough, they didn't seem to care too much that their website
was offline fora few days. You never can tell though.
>
> <Nigel>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard A Steenbergen [mailto:ras@e-gerbil.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 6:30 PM
> To: Nigel Clarke
> Cc: Jerry Eyers; nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs?
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 09:08:03PM -0700, Nigel Clarke wrote:
> >
> > Why don't larger ISPs follow through on this? Simply deny RIAA any
> > access...
>
> And what IPs precisely are you planning to deny? So far its all idle
> threats, we have no idea where they plan to launch their scans or hacking
> attempts from, or even if they have any clue how to hack anything. I
> highly doubt they'll be attaching riaa.com to it either.
>
> I suppose if you want symbolism, you can host -l riaa.com and wack their
> wcom webserver and other stuff at att, but I'd harly call that
> productive.
>
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> Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
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