[57229] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: State Super-DMCA Too True
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Mon Mar 31 19:12:51 2003
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:11:31 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
Cc: Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org>,
"Kuhtz, Christian" <christian.kuhtz@bellsouth.com>,
todd glassey <todd.glassey@worldnet.att.net>,
Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>,
"Robert A. Hayden" <rhayden@geek.net>,
North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303311559080.3384-100000@sasami.anime.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Dan Hollis wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Jack Bates wrote:
>
>>On the other hand, an ISP that *is* aware of illegal activity would be
>>negligent not to look into it.
>
>
> How about the tier1's who route abuse@ to /dev/null? IMHO they are
> negligent and should be held liable...
>
I completely agree. Of course, they may be relying on the fact that they
don't do anything outside of the scope of being a common carrier, so
they shouldn't be held liable, despite the fact that they go against the
agreed upon common good (i.e. abuse@ being manned).
-Jack
