Idea on how to deal with the RMT issues

[Riinata]

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Thing is this: In the US, the only piece of legislation that would deal with what you claim is the "ISP's responsibility" is currently undergoing massive reforms. That law is known as the CFAA or Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and Aaron Swartz's death has introduced new fights for reforms of the CFAA. He was prosecuted for "downloading too many academic journals from JSTOR" and yet JSTOR refused to press charges upon cooperation from Aaron in fixing the issue, but the US Government decided to keep pressing the fight which ended with Swartz committing suicide. In fact, the ISPs have no control over that law but instead are supposed to inform the authorities, which they do. A LOT of government agencies ignore the issue because it's not an issue to them or a direct threat to national security.

Also, Comcast DOES do immediate recycling in the case of IPs that exit their grace period which can either be when the DHCP lease ends or a couple days later depending on last connection time and it's relation to the lease duration. I'm unsure of CL though. But anyways, you do realize that with the dynamic IP nature that it's difficult for an ISP to respond in such a way as to remove the customer from their network, right? Because of how dynamic Comcast's network is, it's not exactly easy to pinpoint who had an IP at this date and time without combing through routing logs and other verification logs.