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

  • From: Miquel van Smoorenburg
  • Date: Thu Nov 18 12:31:27 2004
  • Distribution: cistron
  • Newsgroups: lists.nanog

In article <[email protected]>,
Jeroen Massar  <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 16:40 +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>> 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).
>
>Thus... say a newsserver full of illegal stuff is quite illegal?
>Or that other nice example 'proxy servers', they store the data and then
>relay it. A router could be said to 'store' the data also (in registers
>for like a zillionth microsecond ;) and 

In general, store-and-forward and caching are allowed and
not illegal. Yet.

Mike.