On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 01:26:53PM +0800, Sanjeev Gupta spoke out thus: > What will your ISP say about this? And are you not then an ISP, and need to be >licenced?
Sputnik specifically mentions this in it's Acceptable Use policy [http://www.sputnik.com/network/aups.html]. Distributing ISP allocated bandwidth is generally a no-no for most ISPs and for some good reason. But what I am curious to know is does the usage of Sputnik makes anyone in India liable for legal infringement? What if I want to setup Sputnik in an office so that those with Laptops can move around freely between the rooms? What if I want to use it at home so that I can sit in my apartment lawn to access the Net? Sputnik has strong user authentication. So using it and letting my father browse the Net from his desktop accessing Sputnik as his access point, is equivalent of running a local LAN in my home. And so what happens if I "forget" to set the pasword to my Sputnik network access point? Am I suddenly getting regarded as an unlicenced ISP? My point is aren't there too many gray areas in this technology? Or probably the law was made without the knowledge of such technologies emerging. My guess is that we will soon see proliferation of Sputnik or Sputnik-like technologies in and around India, albeit in very small pockets, but it is an extremely slippery subject for enforcing of any restrictions. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya Mindframe Software Work: sandip @ mindsw.com, http://www.mindsw.com Play: sandipb @ bigfoot.com, http://www.sandipb.net ----------------------------------------------- ================================================ To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org =================================================
