[TriLUG] RR Network Reliablity

[Tanner Lovelace]

On 11/8/05, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
> There have been some disturbances in the force* lately with big ISPs
> starting to talk like RIAA and MPAA thinking that they have an
> overreaching right to control the folks who use "their" internet.
>
> One aspect of this is trying to grab control of services like VOIP on
> "their" networks.
>
> I can't recall who, but one of the heads of a large ISP was recently
> making public statements about trying to get businesses like google to
> pay them for the bandwidth.

It was the head of SBC Global, which iirc is buying AT&T (and changing
their name to AT&T maybe?!?)

Anyway, if they do that, they open a whole host of worms because they
lose common carrier status (and are therefore liable for *everything* that
crosses the network) and their customers will just go elsewhere
for access.

Cheers,
Tanner
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