On 6/9/2010 07:39, Jorge Amodio wrote:
1. Should ISPs be responsible for abuse from within their customer base?
Not sure, ISPs role is just to move packets from A to B, you need to clearly define what constitutes abuse and how much of it is considered a crime.
If I call your home every five minutes to harass you over the phone is AT&T responsible ?
1a. If so, how?
Pull the plug without looking at how much you are billing.
I'd say pull the plug while watching the balance sheet. I have no idea how many providers of netnews service there are left--not many because they waited for somebody else to solve the problems. I subscribe to one that rigorously polices spam and troll traffic (from their own customers _and_from_the_world). And for less than some of the other services. (They are associated with a German University, I think, so there may be a subsidy issue. I would pay several times as much as I do for the service--maybe an order of magnitude more.)
What incentive they have to do so ? and how liable they become if do something without a court order or such ?
Is "survival" an incentive?
Providers in the U.S. are the worst offenders of hosting/accommodating criminal activities by Eastern European criminals. Period.
Probably true, here money talks.
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