Thing.net is an ISP and not a parody site. The parody site was on a co-location server of one of our paying customers. Now, if Verio has a problem with the "Yes Men," they know damn well the IP address of their server and it would have be easy for them to block that address. Instead they choose to shut down the whole c-class net after leaving a message on our answering machine giving us 20 minutes to pull the plug on that machine.
What did you say? "Parody is one thing. Actual disruption is something else?" Now, who is disrupting who here? Why is Verio cutting off service to 300 paying customers for 16 hours?
What about their rights?
As to your question about whether the DMCA was invoked: yes it was. The Verio legal department told me, that they are "required to terminate our contract because of repeat infringements of the Digital Milleneum Copyright Act."
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What did you say? "Parody is one thing. Actual disruption is something else?" Now, who is disrupting who here? Why is Verio cutting off service to 300 paying customers for 16 hours? What about their rights?
As to your question about whether the DMCA was invoked: yes it was. The Verio legal department told me, that they are "required to terminate our contract because of repeat infringements of the Digital Milleneum Copyright Act."
There you go.
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