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If they aren't performing as dumb pipes... If they are examining some of your traffic, then they have the chance to identify all of your traffic.
As such, they are no longer performing as a dumb pipe and could possibly be held responsible for anything that travels through their connections.
This would mean that someone could try for a class action suit for all the spam, trojans, spyware and viruses sent along. They could also try to declare themselves an interested party and sue on behalf of all the content owners, music, programs, pictures, etc.
Moving away from the protections of common carrier/dumb pipe would open them to all sorts of trouble.
Even trying to say they only inspect certain packets wouldn't really work because they have the means to identify those and look, what about all the other ones? |
