Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 03:37:05PM -0500, tor-opera...@sky-haven.net wrote: > >> Incidentally, I work at a (different) hosting provider. We aren't >> particularly interested in being defenders of people's rights. If >> someone cost us money or time in proportions we find to be excessive, we >> assert the right to not renew or maintain a business relationship with >> that someone. > > Current cheap servers do at least TByte/month traffic for 50 EUR, or so > (then they throttle you down to "only" 10 MBit/s, or you pay some 0.10 > EUR/GByte overtraffic). > > Another plan is 70 EUR for 5 TByte/month. There are multiple ones with > a flat rodent option for a little more. > > If you run a middleman on that infrastructure, nobody is going to give > a flying fuck since no complaints come in.
Right. In terms of cost, I'm also considering the cost of our general counsel fending off irritating cease-and-desist crap from various rightsholders. And the cost of having a support staffer be forced to investigate a server because of a complaint from a third party. In principle {RI,MP,whatever}AA complaints are handled the same as Dos/DDoS/spam/UCE reports: we get too many implicating the same customer and the customer gets booted.