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ISP Bans RIAA to Protect Its Customers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shot-heard-round-the-net dept.

fader writes "Information Wave Technologies, a northeastern (US) ISP has announced that "it will actively deny the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) from accessing the contents of its network". Apparently this is in response to the RIAA (and MPAA, but they don't seem to be blocking them yet) plan to actively attack P2P users. All I can say is, you go, guys! I hope more ISPs will follow their lead."

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  1. Re:Excellent news by agentZ · · Score: 3, Funny

    Me too. Especially if they can recover from the /.'ing they're going to receive now. (Will they ban /. too?)

  2. Re:Excuse me???? by GreyPoopon · · Score: 5, Funny
    The only legal pressure could come from their customers if they want to access the RIAA website for some reason.

    And to satisfy those customers, they could just summarize the RIAA website:

    We, the Recording Industry Association of America, would like to offer you substandard products at high prices. Please be aware that those contributing to the development of our products are underpaid, and the funds collected from sales will be used to establish laws further limiting your freedom. We thank you for your patronage.
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  3. Re:Surely they'll check before attacking by ShavenYak · · Score: 4, Funny

    oh wait - just thought of Britney Spears - how did I forget her.

    I don't know, but if you figure it out please tell the rest of us so we can forget her too!

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  4. ping by simpl3x · · Score: 1, Funny

    ping... ping, ping... ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping...

    where the hell did our bandwidth go?