They said that the uncappers were stealing bandwidth. Ftp servers do not steal bandwidth. It might not agree with the TOS but it will not get the fbi on you. If they attacked every server, then everything from kazaa to msn messenger would be affected.
Dennis On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 13:10, will hill wrote: > On 2003.07.14 12:15 Shannon Roddy wrote: > > will hill wrote: > > > > >Some Cox lines, like mine, are noisy. It comes and goes. When it got > > >really bad, I called them. They sent out a repairman with a noise meter. > > >He replaced the line in my backyard and that helped some. After the > > >Toledo FBI raids, I quit using my cable modem for anything but browsing > > >and email. > > > > > > > > > > Toledo raids? > > Yeah, some folks in Toledo violated their service agreements by uncapping > their modems from time to time. The cable operator called in the FBI, who > raided 27 people: > > http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/02/06/27/1329248.shtml?tid=99 > > http://slashdot.org/articles/02/11/22/013226.shtml?tid=123 > > I don't see a difference between this violation of service terms and any > other, such as running ftp. The uncappers did not physically modify the > modems, they simply reprogrammed them. > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
