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Isn't turnabout fair play?[ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#3)
by mobeus on Wed Jun 30, 2004 at 10:43:05 AM PDT

I don't claim to understand all the licensing issues, but, why couldn't you do the same thing they do to indemnify yourself - put a policy on your website that anyone accessing any portion of it, or getting information from someone who accessed it, gives you permission to to freely quote and comment on their website? Then you could say you had their permission since the only way they could present evidence against you is to access your web site. Sometimes the best defense is a strong offense. In that same vein - why can't an ISP set up flood replies to spammers that break some sort of law? After all, they have a blocklist full of them. Make it so the spammer can't find the stupid people that reply amongst the torrent of black hole replies, thus rendering their business model void. That's the only way to stop them. The spammer couldn't bring a complaint against the ISP doing the flooding since they are breaking the law. Hmmmmmmm..... Probably a million holes to this approach as I'm really unqualified in this area, but the gist is that we need ideas to become more proactive on this as a community. They come up with more creative ways around defense mechanisms, maybe it's time to add some offense.

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