[51296] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Thu Aug 22 15:59:08 2002
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 15:53:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: Alif The Terrible <measl@mfn.org>
Cc: Rob Healey <rhealey@onvoy.com>,
Owen DeLong <owen@delong.sj.ca.us>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208221440590.1389-100000@greeves.mfn.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > Do ISP/ASP/*SP's HAVE to provide services if someone knocks on the
> > door requesting them or can they refuse for any reason what so ever?
>
> At my "day job", we routinely refuse service to a large number of people,
> based on our opinion as to whether the potential revenue stream is worth the
> expected overheads (labor, bandwidth, etc). It *alway* a *business
> decision* whether or not sell [a non-protected class] a product.
And it is also a business decision to risk being sued for refusing to
provide a product to a protected class or someone claiming to be a member of
a protected class. Even boards of NYC coops finally got that real-estate
laws do not superceed Bill of Rights.
Alex
