19 Dec
2011
19 Dec
'11
5:31 p.m.
-----Original Message----- From: anti-abuse-wg-bounces@ripe.net [mailto:anti-abuse-wg- bounces@ripe.net] On Behalf Of russ@consumer.net Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 5:29 PM To: <anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net>
Under US law if you block someone and tell them to make their ISP do something to get unblocked that is technically extortion.
As an online discussion about network abuse grows longer, the probability of someone comparing blacklisting to extortion approaches 1. (With apologies to Mike Godwin.) Under the law over here, extortion involves a threat as well as a benefit to which the recipient has no legal right. -- Thor Kottelin http://www.anta.net/