[dundee] Avoiding the digital economy act... don't secure your WIFI and peer with your ISP!

Kris Davidson davidson.kris at gmail.com
Wed Apr 28 10:30:28 UTC 2010


Damn guess I should of read the whole e-mail.

Me=FAIL

On 28 April 2010 11:24, Rick Moynihan <rick.moynihan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Genius!  Loopholes in the digital economy act, mean you can
> effectively reclassify yourself as a 'communications provider' by
> peering with your ISP.  Whilst running an open wifi network means
> plausible deniability and no agreement with the public means you're
> not a 'service provider'.  This seems to effectively free you from
> most of the recent legislation.
>
> Are there any gotchas to this approach?
>
> The gist of it:
>
> http://revk.www.me.uk/2010/04/dont-secure-your-wifi.html
>
> Legal classifications:
>
> http://aaisp.net.uk/legal-cp.html
>
> Loopholes:
>
> http://aaisp.net.uk/dea.html#loopholes
>
> Analysis:
>
> http://aaisp.net.uk/dea-code.html
>
> It looks like AAISP are a good ISP... does anyone use them?
>
> R.
>
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