Wayne Putterill wrote: >That�s interesting, the main local system is strongly supported by >government bodies and there have been some legal developments allowing >broadband users to share their bandwidth
I believe that is a different issue. That was about ISPs prohibiting people to share their excess bandwidth with others, because they prefered to sell subscriptions to these others instead. This is about legal liability. If some bank gets hacked, some KP posted or spam sent and they can trace it back to a certain IP address, who is going to be arrested? If the person sharing his DSL line can't prove it was somebody else, he has a serious problem. I don't know about the UK, but in the Netherlands ISPs are required to log which IP belongs to which customer and keep those logs for some time. Just like telephone corporations are required to keep CDRs of all phone calls for 3 months. Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
