On Nov 13, 2009, at 9:15 AM, "Rick Lindahl" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Most of the ISP's that we work with track down the alleged user by IP > address and are then required to first warn them and then disconnect > them. > Shutting down the entire network and blaming it on one user is either > irresponsible journalism and/or a poorly managed wireless network. It sounds like the entire network had one public IP, so someone probably did contact the ISP, who shut down the Internet connection. Likely, the network is still up, but lacking the precious Internet access. > My guess > is this was either not reported correctly or was just the excuse that > someone used that wanted to shut it down anyway. The network operators and ISP may have both been slightly ignorant about how to respond to these notices when they apply to a heavily used wireless network. Namely that making a best effort to address the issue should be adequate, and requesting that the MPAA give you more information to investigate if they expect you to help them is totally reasonable. > Very sad either way... Indeed, this sounds like it was a very popular and useful network. > Rick Lindahl > Invictus Networks > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:ptp- > [email protected]] On > Behalf Of Russell Senior > Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 5:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ptp-general] Re: boo hiss.. suckered by the MPAA.. > > >>>>>> "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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
