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Re: State Super-DMCA Too True

  • From: Kevin Loch
  • Date: Sun Mar 30 02:43:50 2003 

----- Original Message -----
From: Jack Bates <[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, March 30, 2003 0:22 am
Subject: Re: State Super-DMCA Too True

> > (Some DSL/cable companies try to charge per machine, and record 
> the 
> > machine address of the devices connected.) 
> 
> And to use NAT to circumvent this should be illegal. It is theft of 
> service. The ISP has the right to setup a business model and sell 
> as it 
> wishes. Technology has allowed ways to bypass or steal extra 
> service. 
> This law now protects the ISP. There will be some ISPs that 
> continue to 
> allow and support NAT.

If you can tell the difference between NAT and non-NAT
traffic you don't need this law.  If you can't,
the law is completely unenforcable.  The same
goes for VPN's.  So what's the point other than 
to discourage good business models?

KL