On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 05:04:05PM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote: > > --The service provider must not determine the recipients of the material. > > One could argue (in theory) that a routing-table lookup > may satisfy this.
I'm not so sure. Generally speaking, a destination network is a given ISP, not a given individual. And it's highly impractical for an ISP to know the /individual/ a packet is destined for from the address. > > --The material must be transmitted with no modification to its content. > > Same theory here also, where one decrements ttl, since we are > talking about ip packets here. I believe they're referring to copyrighted material which is wholly contained in the payload of the packets involved. > Either way, this is an interesting test case and I do > hope it receives immediate dismissal. This would be like asking > the phone company to turn off phone service for people that arrange > drug deals or similar. Not something that I see happening. I have to say I expect this one to be disposed of pretty quickly, but we'll see... --msa