Verizon must comply with RIAA's DMCA subpoena

[Neil Johnson]

FYI

A couple of weeks ago, a manager where I work showed me an e-mail he received 
from his (and my) DSL ISP.

Evidently one of his computers on his home network (his teenage son's) had 
gotten infected with a virus and began portscanning.

Some monitoring group caught the portscan, e-mailed the date, time, and IP 
Address to the ISP.

The ISP checked it's records and found out it was his connection and sent him 
the e-mail. 

It basically said "Get your damn anti-virus software updated, or we will pull 
the plug on your connection, it violates our AUP" (Okay it was worded nicer 
than that, with info on what the virus was, where to find information on 
getting rid of it, anti-virus software reccomendations, and so-on. But the 
dissconnection threat was in there).

Which leads me to beleive that most ISP's are going to want to to keep track 
of IP's.

 (The way ours seems to do it is by generating the assigned IP  address based 
on the MAC address of the device connecting to their network. As long as I 
use the same MAC address, I get the same IP address. Gotta love those cheap 
home routers that let you clone MAC addresses) 
-- 
Neil Johnson

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