[97770] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Belgian court rules that ISPs must block file-sharing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris L. Morrow)
Thu Jul 5 21:28:33 2007
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:26:07 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
In-reply-to: <468D95A9.6080602@ttec.com>
To: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
Cc: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Joe Maimon wrote:
> It is actually fairly easy, just restandardize the Evil bit as the
> Illegal Bit.
>
> All network transfers of illegal content must set the Illegal bit and
> all Belgian ISP's must drop packets with the Illegal bit set.
>
> Problem solved.
I'd bet there are penalties if content is transferred though :( so,
relying on the 'illegal content users/sharers' to 'do the right thing'
isn't likely to get you where you want to be... :(
