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Re: ISP prepared to identify alleged file swappers

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From: enquiring mind
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 11:35
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email_me@mts.net wrote:
> 
> With comments like "there's nothing wrong with his company identifying
> alleged file swappers when ordered to do so" , the opperative word is
> alleged. This ISP deseves to have their users leave them enmass, what
> ever happened to innocent till proven guilty?
> 
> http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2005/04/21/swap050421.html
> 
> A lawyer for ISP Videotron says there's nothing wrong with his company
> identifying alleged file swappers when ordered to do so.
> 
> "We do it on a regular basis [when issued a court order]. It's not
> very complicated," Serge Sasseville said in an interview with the
> Canadian Press.

Like landlords and tenants, there are advantages to both.  You can, of
course, be your own ISP provider.  There are advantages and
disadvantages to being an ISP provider.   

Just because something is not against the law doesn't mean that people
have to or want to do it.  

There are advantages and disadvantages to hiring people with a previous
criminal record.  Some employers do it and some employers don't.
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