Re: [nznog] Don't quite get this?

On 2/09/2011 10:40 a.m., Hamish MacEwan wrote:

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 10:30, David Robinson wrote:

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What is to stop the ISPs just shredding the notices? Bye bye safe harbour, hello copyright infringement liability.

The less than novel twist is that first what should be common carriers are made liable for their clients actions, then given immunity if they give their clients up.

Or worse (for the general public) the ISP might be forced to hand over contact details for their client to the RH, as opposed to passing on the notice. I would hate to think of the spam generation that would ensue if for the mere sum of $25 a RH agent could get a legitimate known email address. Rights notices we've received and passed on in the past have resulted in 'no, no, not here' statements followed by significant drops in bandwidth usage, or the customer initiated closure of the account. Fear, it's a powerful thing. Gerard