Hello SHANNON.

17 Jun 06 16:39, you wrote to all:

 >> So they just woke up one morning and said to themselves "hey let's
 >> see who's account we can cut today. This Felten seems a good one for
 >> today. Snap!" Sure Roy, sure, that is how it happened.

 ST> Why not?

Because you don't alienate potential paying customers by cutting their free
accounts on a whim. Even when the license terms say you can. It is bad
marketing strategy.

 ST> My domain service provider 'frequently' indexes my site, and
 ST> I have for a fact they are looking for 'key words' like Torrent,
 ST> Warez, Appz or worse (it was in the 7861 word count TOS agreement I
 ST> kept).

Providers snooping on their customers. How low must we sink to dance to the
tune of the MPAA mafia?

 ST> If I ran a similar service, I'd do the same thing....

I am sure you would. I am lucky to live in a sOciety where snooping on
innocent people is still considered bad manners. I am glad that in my
country providers respect my privacy and do not snoop on citizens unless
they are forced by a court order.

 ST>  Protect my ass.

Odd. Over here a common legal opinion is that one is better protected by
not snooping on the customers and leave the law to law enforcement. If you
*do* Snoop, you may be held accountable for missing something. A policy of
not snooping protects from that.

 ST> Dyndns is a pretty big organization and I have no doubt they
 ST> employ similar tactics.

Yeah, well I don't buy it. During your crusade you guys over there find
fault with Bj”rn's website. You start demonising him over some old center
folds. And Lo and behold, all of a sudden dyndns' robocop finds them too
and rings the alarm bells. What I coincidence!

Sorry Shannon, I don't buy that. There was a human snitch and you are in
the top three of my list of suspects.

Michiel

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