[free-sklyarov] Congress says: Keep Dmitry in jail! Washington loves DMCA...

[Mark K. Bilbo]

Well, hey, I wasn't saying "let's do this." It's just a nice pipe dream of
the entire IT industry saying back "oh yeah, try to run the funny boxes
WITHOUT us."

I'm just really tired of being made out to be the Evil! Hacker! while they
also claim IT is driving a big chunk of the economy. They want it both ways.
Keep the geeks cowed and turning the cranks. But, heavens, don't ever treat
them like real citizens!

Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Tully" <eric at tully.com>
To: "Jon Bober" <jwb235 at nyu.edu>; "Mark K. Bilbo" <mkbilbo at cdcla.com>
Cc: <free-sklyarov at zork.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: [free-sklyarov] Congress says: Keep Dmitry in jail! Washington
loves DMCA...


> At 12:09 PM 7/25/01 -0400, Jon Bober wrote:
> >
> >this is a thought that also occurred to me this morning on the train.
> >
> >i wonder just what it would take to take the internet down for a day.
> >
>
>
>
>
> It's not a realistic goal.
>
> It could be done a few different ways:
>
> 1.  Get a rogue engineer who administers MAE-East or West to shut the
> servers down.  Even if you did get an engineer to take that down, it would
> be back up in minutes since armed guards would have that employee removed
> and other employees would bring the system back up.
>
> 2.  Get operators of the biggest Internet services to erase routing tables
> or power off routers.  They have contractual obligations that they must
> honor and the potential lawsuits would be enormous so they would never
> agree to participate in this.
>
>
> Even if you did take down the Internet for a day, it wouldn't change
> Washington's mind about the DMCA.
>
>
> I suppose a nuclear bomb in the DC/Virginia area would take out enough
> peering points to put a damper on the Internet for a few years.
>
> I'm not actually recommending this as a way to urge Congress to eliminate
> the DMCA.
>
>
> - Eric
>
>
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