[IP] more on upon suspicion .. Verizon to Police Web Customers To Protect Disney From Piracy -- a response from Dan Bricklin
Begin forwarded message:
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@xxxxxxx>
Date: September 25, 2005 10:37:40 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Bob Frankston
<Bob2-19-0501@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tim Onosko <onosko@xxxxxxxxx>, Dan
Bricklin <Dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] upon suspicion .. Verizon to Police Web Customers
To Protect Disney From Piracy -- a response from Dan Bricklin
This paragraph, as I read it, also says Verizon may terminate your
service based on suspicion or allegation that you have infringed upon
Disney's copyrights, not actual proof as determined by a third party
such as a court of law.
Ah. Which means that it's probably/possibly just become much easier
to get someone's Verizon service terminated. I can think of any number
of methods which would readily create the appearance that a given
Verizon customer is engaged in just this sort of activity -- and I'm
sure I'm not the only one.
What a pity that Verizon doesn't put even a fraction of this sort of
effort into abating the non-stop torrent [1] of spam that's been gushing
out of their network for the last several years. I suppose it's much
more important to please the copyright thugs at Disney than it is to
worry about the abuse of the entire rest of the Internet.
---Rsk
[1] 3,156 different spam-spewing Verizon hosts noted so far in 2005 and
that's just on a test server. Numbers from a production box would be
a LOT higher. And that's before we get into Verizon's use of callbacks,
aka "a free, highly scalable spam and DoS attack support service".
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