Code of Conduct
It seems now that “the big guys” now want to decide what is inappropriate behaviour with regard to your Internet consumption. According to the article, the draft code of conduct wants ISPs to “enforce terms of service that prohibit a subscriber from operating a server, or from consuming excessive amounts of bandwidth where such consumption is a good indicator of infringing activities.”
Apparently I should be expecting the police to be knocking on my door since I run two servers (I have a production and a development/test server) and have fairly heavy bandwidth consumption. But I don’t have any illegally downloaded music on my laptop, I’m a developer that runs a couple of web-based applications with large databases and high-traffic. But in a civil case there is no public defender, you’re on your own. So if you can’t afford a good lawyer, you can likely kiss your assets goodbye.
Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:35 Posted in Technology
