[IP] more on upon suspicion .. Verizon to Police Web Customers To Protect Disney From Piracy -- a response from Dan Bricklin

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
Date: September 25, 2005 10:37:40 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Cc: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>, Bob Frankston  
<Bob2-19-0501@bobf.frankston.com>, Tim Onosko <onosko@gmail.com>, Dan  
Bricklin <Dan@Bricklin.com>
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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