DMCA takedowns of networks

Sat Oct 24 13:28:43 UTC 2009

Outside of child pornography there is no content that I would ever consider
censoring without a court order nor would I ever purchase transit from a
company that engages in this type of behavior.

Jeff

On Oct 24, 2009 9:01 AM, "William Allen Simpson" <
william.allen.simpson at gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/23/chamber-of-commerce-stron_n_332087.html

 Hurricane Electric obeyed the Chamber's letter and shut down the spoof
 site. But in the process, they shut down hundreds of other sites
 maintained by May First / People Link, the Yes Men's direct provider
 (Hurricane Electric is its "upstream" provider).

What's going on?  Since when are we required to take down an entire
customer's net for one of their subscriber's so-called infringement?

Heck, it takes years to agree around here to take down a peering to an
obviously criminal enterprise network....

My first inclination would be to return the request (rejected), saying
it was sent to the wrong provider.