>>>>> "Aaron" == Aaron Baer <[email protected]> writes:
Aaron> http://www.coshoctontribune.com/article/20091109/UPDATES01/91109015 Aaron> COSHOCTON A free service enjoyed by hundreds has been shut down Aaron> due to illegal activity conducted by one individual. Dumb article, sadly typical of today's "journalism". As far as I can tell, the story doesn't say who made the decision to disconnect. The "one person who ruined it for everyone" was the one that made that decision, not the dude or dudette that was allegedly downloading the movie. We _occasionally_, like maybe a half-dozen time in the 4 years I've been involved with PTP, get a notification of some claim of illegal downloading. We respond to those notifications by investigating and, where appropriate, blocking access to a particular person. It does not require cutting off the service in its entirety, and anyone who says it does is smoking bad rope. PTP does occasionally block bittorrent or bittorrent-like traffic on our nodes, but since we can't tell whether the content is illegal or not unless we have a specific complaint, we are blocking it because it is interfering with others use of the network by saturating the upstream bandwidth. We consider circumstances like that to be abusive and we are acting to protect the network, not to enforce someone's hypothetical copyright claim. -- Russell Senior, President [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
