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This kind of reply reminds me of the vitriolic replies that companies leveled back in the day against the guys who registered donotreply.com. They would try to

This kind of reply reminds me of the vitriolic replies that companies leveled back in the day against the guys who registered donotreply.com. They would try to alert companies using a domain they didn't own for communications to their customers that this was a bad idea, and soon after got nastygrams from the company's lawyers saying they'd stolen their intellectual property and wiretapped their communications. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/03/they_told_you_not_to_reply.html http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/03/they_to...

huffmsa 7y ago
If this were a meat space address, this wouldn't even be an issue. Then or now
- crooked-v 7y ago
  Consider this hypothetical: You buy a house, and its address somehow gets listed as an internal corporate postal address at BigCorp. You regularly get bag-fulls of corporate mail containing personal information. BigCorp refuses to changes their internal directories, and refuses to buy your home at a reasonable value. The only real difference in the corp.com case is that instead of just one BigCorp, it's one BigCorp that's gotten a bunch of other SmallCorps and BigCorps to all incorrectly list the same address too. On the same general note, "a business listed my phone number as theirs and refuses to change it" stories are pretty common, and often have the same "the business refuses to change it" quality.
  - huffmsa 7y ago
    And you're perfectly within your right to sell that address to anyone you so please. For whatever price.
- QuinnyPig 7y ago
  You’d think so, right? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/kansas-couple-sues-ip-mapping-firm-for-turning-their-life-into-a-digital-hell/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/kansas-couple-su...
  - huffmsa 7y ago
    What I mean is that no one will piss their pants about "morality" if that couple wanted to sell their house. It's their house, they can sell it and the associated addresses to whomever they see fit

huffmsa 7y ago

If this were a meat space address, this wouldn't even be an issue. Then or now

crooked-v 7y ago
Consider this hypothetical: You buy a house, and its address somehow gets listed as an internal corporate postal address at BigCorp. You regularly get bag-fulls of corporate mail containing personal information. BigCorp refuses to changes their internal directories, and refuses to buy your home at a reasonable value. The only real difference in the corp.com case is that instead of just one BigCorp, it's one BigCorp that's gotten a bunch of other SmallCorps and BigCorps to all incorrectly list the same address too. On the same general note, "a business listed my phone number as theirs and refuses to change it" stories are pretty common, and often have the same "the business refuses to change it" quality.
- huffmsa 7y ago
  And you're perfectly within your right to sell that address to anyone you so please. For whatever price.
QuinnyPig 7y ago
You’d think so, right? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/kansas-couple-sues-ip-mapping-firm-for-turning-their-life-into-a-digital-hell/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/kansas-couple-su...
- huffmsa 7y ago
  What I mean is that no one will piss their pants about "morality" if that couple wanted to sell their house. It's their house, they can sell it and the associated addresses to whomever they see fit