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Re: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Charlap)
Fri Aug 23 09:55:19 2002

Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:55:24 -0400
From: David Charlap <David.Charlap@marconi.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Tim Thorne wrote:
> Owen DeLong <owen@delong.sj.ca.us> wrote:
>> 
>> As much as I like the idea of blacklisting the RIAA (and think it's
>> probably a good thing to do on principle), I don't believe that it
>> will actually help.  The RIAA, itself, doesn't use the net for
>> revenew, or, really, much of anything.
> 
> Why stop with just the RIAA? If they truly represent their members
> then null route their subnets too. Just think of the healthy drop in
> spam you'll get coming from rr.com...

Think of the drop in customers you'll get when they can't access Disney, 
Sony, Paramount or any other media company.

-- David


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