State Super-DMCA Too True

Tue Apr 1 00:11:31 UTC 2003

Dan Hollis wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Jack Bates wrote:
> 
>>On the other hand, an ISP that *is* aware of illegal activity would be 
>>negligent not to look into it.
> 
> 
> How about the tier1's who route abuse@ to /dev/null? IMHO they are 
> negligent and should be held liable...
> 

I completely agree. Of course, they may be relying on the fact that they 
don't do anything outside of the scope of being a common carrier, so 
they shouldn't be held liable, despite the fact that they go against the 
agreed upon common good (i.e. abuse@ being manned).

-Jack