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Is that legal?
by mkj 1y ago
Is that legal?
- MaxPock 1y agoSome corrupt employee sold millions of IPs to this guy and he's been reselling them outside of Africa .
- jfengel 1y agoIs that covered by any actual law? Is some government entity responsible? Or is it just an anarchy breaking down?
- lagniappe 1y agoIts Africa
- lazide 1y agoNo one wants to get a sovereign country involved in these issues if they can avoid it, because that is an even more giant can of worms. Because then it’s ’whose laws again?’. And all these matters cross every international boundary as a matter of course. Unfortunately, it is also enabling this particular situation.
- jfengel 1y agoAh. It sounds like another case where the Internet was built assuming a fair bit of goodwill on behalf of its users. Until we realized that it means that the worst 0.01% now have access to everyone in the world.
- lazide 1y agoThough also, the alternatives are rarely much better. Not that the rest of the world would be feeling great if this was all based out of Washington DC right now eh? Or Beijing. Or Paris. (Depending on who they are)
- toast0 1y agoIt's most likely against the IP allocation policy/agreement. Violating an agreement is a civil matter. However, purposefully entering agreements with intent to violate them can escalate to criminal fraud, amd wire fraud when money is involved. There'a certainly a question of jurisdiction when there's so many localities involved.