Sky blocks Newzbin, important legal and technical questions need answering

Roland Perry lists at internetpolicyagency.com
Fri Dec 16 17:10:11 GMT 2011


In article <00cf01ccbc11$7d061bc0$77125340$@net>, James Firth 
<james2 at jfirth.net> writes

>> There's no umbrella list required, all it needs is for hosting ISPs to
>> refrain from reallocating a small address range to a new customer when
>> they know very well that their original customer got blocked.
>
>Do they? How? We're talking about the server host, who probably hasn't seen
>a copy of the injunction because the MPAA are currently targeting
>intermediaries.

Their customer will either complain that "mysteriously" their hosting no 
longer seems to work, or they'll see their customer cancelling the 
contract and when asking them "why" will get told "because it's 
blocked".
-- 
Roland Perry



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