> Your ISP will *normally* kick you off if they get a complaint.
Again, safety in numbers, combined with the entrapment argument, are the
best defenses against this. An ISP may kick you off if threatened with
legal action - such as was the case with Demon - but why would they kick
you off for violating a US law (particularly when this violation is
questionable?).
The point is that if people can get you kicked off the Internet for dumb
reasons, then you have much bigger problems than just whether you are able
to run a Freenet node or not - that is the fight which needs to be fought,
not trying to work around it. Attempts by people to kick people off for
running Freenet could be the perfect demonstration of how dumb this
is. Anyone who didn't think that there would be a PR battle at some point
in Freenet's development was not thinking ahead.
Also, many Freenet nodes I am aware of seem to run from Universities which
are quite protective of their users - many Universities extended a
one-fingered salute when the RIAA tried to tell them to remove users for
running Napster, citing free-speech concerns, if these concerns applied to
Napster, then they would *definitely* apply to Freenet.
> > > Except if you can't tie a user to an IP address, of course, but you can in
> > > many schemes. For instance if you keep logs of your DHCP transactions then
> > > it's not a big deal, even on cable.
> >
> > Er, bypassing DHCP is a very easy measure to take if this is your concern.
> And illegal.
> >
> > Ian.
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