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

[Kris Davidson]

You don't even need to go that far. Lots of people can be classed as a
communication provider and its easier to do than being a service
provider. AAISP let you do it for free online.

The descriptions they have are:

Subscriber

A subscriber is someone that has an agreement with us to use an
internet access service and is not buying that service as a
communications provider. This is the default.
Communications provider

A communications provider is anyone that is providing a communications
service to anyone else, whether other people in their house or office,
visitors wanting to check their email, neighbours or public access
wifi, etc. Many people could qualify as a communications provider. The
important thing is you can select this to buy service from us as a
communications provider which is all that is needed to stop you being
a subscriber.

Service provider

A service provider is anyone that is a communications provider and is
providing services to subscribers. These have to be people that have
an agreement with you to provide an internet access service (so public
wifi does not count) and they must themselves not be a communications
provider. It is also necessary for you to allocate IP addresses to be
a service provider (e.g. providing email does not count). If you have
anyone else using the service but they do not meet these criteria (an
agreement, allocating IPs and them not being a communications
provider) then you are just a communications provider yourself.

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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