North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs?
> > Do ISP/ASP/*SP's HAVE to provide services if someone knocks on the > > door requesting them or can they refuse for any reason what so ever? > > At my "day job", we routinely refuse service to a large number of people, > based on our opinion as to whether the potential revenue stream is worth the > expected overheads (labor, bandwidth, etc). It *alway* a *business > decision* whether or not sell [a non-protected class] a product. And it is also a business decision to risk being sued for refusing to provide a product to a protected class or someone claiming to be a member of a protected class. Even boards of NYC coops finally got that real-estate laws do not superceed Bill of Rights. Alex
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