This whole discussion reminds me of the situation the security and vulnerability researchers often face from the corporate overlords. Why is noone talking about the real issue? Namely, how could a RIR be so easily shutdown by the courts with the jurisdiction? Why is this mailing list used to solicit donations for presumably the bigger party, which has evidently lost their day in court so far? How's that within NANOG AUP? Why are we blaming the party who has identified the faults of the system, and used these faults to some perceived advantage? Everyone knows that everyone else has been engaged in IP address arbitrage for a while anyways, how's this instance all that different? Just because it involves AfriNIC presumably many have ignored until now? Just because the smaller party has hired a good lawyer and has had a successful day in court so far? Why is this mailing list used to advocate interruption and termination of service by the cloud providers for unsuspecting third-parties? How convenient that we have courts on our side "usually", yet in this case they aren't, but that's okay, because the Mauritian courts must not be the good ones! Let's just revert to the vigilante system and prevent third-parties not to the dispute from receiving the service just because a "bad guy" happens to be an intermediary facilitator! Don't blame the player, blame the game. I read all these messages in this thread, plus John Curran's 2021-08-27 statement at teamarin.net, and I'm not convinced that the whole crowd going against a single player, who has law on their side so far, is a fair game here. Even more ironic is that John alleges CI couldn't justify an ARIN allocation because "business activities outside of the ARIN service region", only to go on and complain in the very next paragraph about the announcement of the AfriNIC address space from within the United States (i.e., actual proof of use within ARIN service region). It would seem reasonable to leave the whole issue up to the courts, instead of engaging in contempt of foreign courts, and to stop the vigilante justice against any of the parties, especially the end users who are not even a party to this whole dispute. C.