On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 08:56:22AM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
Sorry, but this is not a zero-sum game, and you can't have it both ways.
The whole Internet is built on cooperative access to resources. By your
argument, no one was damaged when that Pakistani ISP null-routed half
the planet to block access to YouTube, because no one should have
expected to have access to the Ineternet in the first place.
That is not an analogous situation. Had YouTube null-routed *itself*,
thus exercising control over its own resources, then that would be
an analogous situation.
We're not discussing third-party intervention here: we're talking
about people exercising control over their own resources.
(And yes, I concur with your view of how the Internet's been built.
I support it fully. However, one's decision to cooperate and generously
extend privileges to others isn't required to be irrevocable or universal.)
---Rsk
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