On 7/24/02 11:31 AM, "Adam Rothschild" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 2002-07-24-14:10:00, James Thomason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If this legislation is passed, they certainly will earn Null0 on >> mine. > > Unless, of course, the RIAA, MPAA, and friends carry out their > cracking through throw-away dial and DSL accounts, like they > purportedly use now to troll for copyright offenders, and send > automated nasty-grams to their upstream providers. > > Carrying out their cracking from a uniform netblock or AS, which we > could all identify and filter, would be too easy. They're flagrant, > but they're not stupid. > The Business Software Alliance appears to be using this technique to flush out people distributing their Members' software via Gnutella and others. I have received the obligatory nasty-gram advising me as the "owner" of an IP (not taking into account the IP has been allocated and then assigned to consecutive downstream providers) that I could be held liable for the actions of this particular user. Mike