On Aug 5, 2004, at 09:17, Jeff Kinz wrote:
Anybody know what ISP's real status is vis-a-vis being/not being a Common Carrier?
Most of the articles I've read say the cable plant does not fall under common carrier provisions but data lines provisioned through telcos do.
So they can do port blocking, prioritize their conglomerate's traffic, turn off service without notice (Remember @Home?), etc.
Where it could get interesting is that common carriers receive special protections when it comes to questionable content. They get to claim that they're not the "publisher" of given content, they're just a common carrier. I suspect if the parent companies of the cable providers weren't themselves RIAA members this issue would have been pressed already.
The cable companies want to have it both ways. For the right amount of money appropriate legislation can probably make it so.
-Bill
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