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Re: ftc shuts down a colo and ip provider
From: "Wayne E. Bouchard" <web () typo org>
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 00:02:12 -0700
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 01:44:53AM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote:
What does it say about these providers AUP that the FTC needed to go to court to turn them off? The AUP standard is usually written much, much lower. Deepak
It says revenue trumps ethics in far too many instances. Virtually every company out there, regardless of size, has their share of those that some would rather do without but who stick around often because someone with authority is willing to look the other way. Why does this happen? Money. Simple as that. If they're willing to buy, someone is willing to sell. To put any real teeth behind the concept of an AUP and those that are supposedly charged with enforcing these, in a lot of firms, will take some sort of landmark criminal or civil case that effectively says, "You knew about these complaints and chose to ignore them, therefore you are complicit in what they did. Now fork over." It is unfortunate that this is probably going to be necessary, but thats the way I see things. Until companies are scared of the repercussions of weak or unenforced AUPs, this situation will not change. -Wayne --- Wayne Bouchard web () typo org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/
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- ftc shuts down a colo and ip provider Randy Bush (Jun 04)
- Re: ftc shuts down a colo and ip provider Andrew D Kirch (Jun 04)
- Re: ftc shuts down a colo and ip provider Christopher Morrow (Jun 04)
- Re: ftc shuts down a colo and ip provider Michael Painter (Jun 04)
- Re: ftc shuts down a colo and ip provider Jo Rhett (Jun 22)
- Re: ftc shuts down a colo and ip provider Peter Dambier (Jun 23)
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- Re: ftc shuts down a colo and ip provider Deepak Jain (Jun 04)
- Re: ftc shuts down a colo and ip provider Christopher Morrow (Jun 04)
- Re: ftc shuts down a colo and ip provider Gadi Evron (Jun 05)
- Re: ftc shuts down a colo and ip provider Christopher Morrow (Jun 05)
- Re: ftc shuts down a colo and ip provider Christopher Morrow (Jun 04)
- Re: ftc shuts down a colo and ip provider Wayne E. Bouchard (Jun 05)
- Re: ftc shuts down a colo and ip provider Andrew D Kirch (Jun 04)