[75597] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Thu Nov 18 11:41:04 2004
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:40:39 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <cistron.1100794375.3557.3.camel@firenze.zurich.ibm.com>,
Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org> wrote:
>The business case of about 80% of the ISP's is Pr0n & W4R3z (or what
>spelling is 'in' this year?)
>
>But.... it is not illegal to make adverts for say "Downloading the
>newest movies over a cool 8mbit DSL line". But downloading it itself is
>of course. Might be analogous to providing a busservice to the crack
>dealers mansion.
[OT]
That depends on the jurisdiction. In many parts of the world,
downloading is NOT illegal. But making copyrighted files available
for download is illegal (without the proper autorization, ofcourse).
Mike.
