On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 18:40 -0400, Charles Vance wrote: > each of those scenario's involve either fraud or intent to do harm and > are already prohibited
`(1) IN GENERAL- It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States, in connection with any telecommunications service or VOIP service, to cause any caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information, with the intent to defraud or cause harm. emphasis on "intent to defraud or cause harm" so even with this law nothing really changes. Although this is not the first attempt, its a new bill that is basically the same as the 2006 one, what passed was the 2007 one introduced Jan 5 2007. It generally will do nothing, and places no burden on voip providers on its face, although the courts at a later date may decide that providers have to take responsibility for their customers. The person also has to be in the united states, which provides an interesting loop hole for a call center in say india. The intent to defraud or cause harm will be assumed for grand jury hearings, only to be disputed in trial. That is the way with intent more often than not. It will be difficult to say that people are doing this with intent before they do anything else, as a result the law wont stop anything, nor will it help much in terms of getting warrants to search before someone actually does something, its yet another law to make people feel good about paying the legislature for doing nothing. Much like the florida law. > -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel Belfast +44 28 9099 6461 US +1 516 687 5200 http://www.trxtel.com the phone company that pays you! _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
