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Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]

  • From: Miquel van Smoorenburg
  • Date: Thu Nov 18 11:41:44 2004
  • Distribution: cistron
  • Newsgroups: lists.nanog
In article <[email protected]>,
Jeroen Massar  <[email protected]> wrote:
>The business case of about 80% of the ISP's is Pr0n & W4R3z (or what
>spelling is 'in' this year?)
>
>But.... it is not illegal to make adverts for say "Downloading the
>newest movies over a cool 8mbit DSL line". But downloading it itself is
>of course. Might be analogous to providing a busservice to the crack
>dealers mansion.

[OT]

That depends on the jurisdiction. In many parts of the world,
downloading is NOT illegal. But making copyrighted files available
for download is illegal (without the proper autorization, ofcourse).

Mike.