It is interesting that most of the people complaining about this are saying that the bandwidth cap should be lifted. The technology to offer the unlimited bandwidth to a large community of users may not be dramatically expensive anymore, but that is not the only cost involved.
There are staffing expenses, electrical, and others. If you don't like what they are doing vote with your feet and go somewhere else, but don't whine because you can't download multi-gigabyte files that are illegal in the first place.
To the users who say that there are other legal P2P applications on the web: good. Now all you have to do is find some way to filter the copyrighted material from the other users. What? That's draconian you say? Well, why should you be allowed to get for free what other people have spent a lot of time and money producing?
It is interseting the everyone feels that Gilmore has the obligation to close his relay..
While security wise this is a nice thing to do, he is by no means obligated to do so. The only obligation he has is to live up to the terms of service and acceptable use policies of Verio. The acceptable use policy (http://www.verio.com/company/policies/aup.cfm) does specifically state that running an open relay is prohibited.
But besides the load on the network(s) and various servers, what is the real problem?
Most if not all email programs have the ability to filter email. And most sysadmins maintain a "blacklist" of domains that they routinely block at the gateway.
This is the same problem that Windows users face when confronted with a security hole in MS Outlook or Windows. Is it Microsoft's responsibility that damage has ocurred on a company's network because Outlook has a hole? What if the patch was made available and the user/techie failed to apply it? Is it still Microsoft's problem?
Some posters have said that having an open relay offends the "community sensibility." Well so does not bathing regularly, but it's not against the law. And most places won't deny you service on this fact alone.
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It is interesting that most of the people complaining about this are saying that the bandwidth cap should be lifted. The technology to offer the unlimited bandwidth to a large community of users may not be dramatically expensive anymore, but that is not the only cost involved.
There are staffing expenses, electrical, and others. If you don't like what they are doing vote with your feet and go somewhere else, but don't whine because you can't download multi-gigabyte files that are illegal in the first place.
To the users who say that there are other legal P2P applications on the web: good. Now all you have to do is find some way to filter the copyrighted material from the other users. What? That's draconian you say? Well, why should you be allowed to get for free what other people have spent a lot of time and money producing?
It is interseting the everyone feels that Gilmore has the obligation to close his relay..
While security wise this is a nice thing to do, he is by no means obligated to do so. The only obligation he has is to live up to the terms of service and acceptable use policies of Verio. The acceptable use policy (http://www.verio.com/company/policies/aup.cfm) does specifically state that running an open relay is prohibited.
But besides the load on the network(s) and various servers, what is the real problem?
Most if not all email programs have the ability to filter email. And most sysadmins maintain a "blacklist" of domains that they routinely block at the gateway.
This is the same problem that Windows users face when confronted with a security hole in MS Outlook or Windows. Is it Microsoft's responsibility that damage has ocurred on a company's network because Outlook has a hole? What if the patch was made available and the user/techie failed to apply it? Is it still Microsoft's problem?
Some posters have said that having an open relay offends the "community sensibility." Well so does not bathing regularly, but it's not against the law. And most places won't deny you service on this fact alone.
Just my 2 coppers.