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[ NNSquad ] Re: Subject: UK ISPs are threatening to cripple websites that don't pay them first
The story merely insinuated a full blockage of an edge provider if they
refused to pay for enhanced services. It didn't really go into specific
allegations and mainly complained about plain old transit service or the
fact that ISPs would try to outbid CDNs for the BBC's business. The thing
is though, those CDNs pay the ISPs anyways and they're reselling premium
peering bandwidth to the BBC so what's wrong if the ISP wants to sell to the
BBC directly so long as it wasn't offered under duress (the treat of
blocking)?
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From: nnsquad-bounces+george_ou=lanarchitect.net@nnsquad.org
[mailto:nnsquad-bounces+george_ou=lanarchitect.net@nnsquad.org] On Behalf Of
Robert J Berger
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 7:17 PM
To: nnsquad@nnsquad.org
Subject: [ NNSquad ] Re: Subject: UK ISPs are threatening to cripple
websites that don't pay them first
Isn't this really a use of a Denial of Service attack for extortion no
worse than the extortion practices of Russian Mobsters?
[ "The Internet of the 21st century was replete with so-called
'protection rackets' of various degrees, ranging from
international '419' money scams to corporate greed on high, to
organizational malfeasance deluxe. 'The Net' and its descendent
'GIG' (the Great Information Grid) were foundations of what we
now call the Glorious Global Communications Era, before the fall
of the Multilateral Matrix Monarchy, triggered by the collapse
of global power and computing systems as a result of the
unprecedented solar flare inundations that decimated our planet
during the early years of the 22nd century.
-- Hybold Tesserax
Scribe T-0E43 of the Punched Paper Tape Histories
Museum of Ancient Technology
McMurdo Hamlet 00392
2818 A.D.E.
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-- Lauren Weinstein
NNSquad Moderator ]
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On Jan 23, 2011, at 7:11 PM, nnsquad-request@nnsquad.org wrote:
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] UK ISPs are threatening to cripple websites that
> don't pay them first
>
>
> http://bit.ly/fkQxVu (PC Pro)
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