andrel wrote:
> 1) because that is how the internet started and has been run for almost
> it's entire existence. "I'll pass on you packages because I know someone
> else will pass on mine if and only if everybody does that".

	That doesn't make it a human right, nor do I know of a legal precedence
where something was argued with "Because that's how it's always been
done". Especially when we're only talking of a span of less than 50 years.

> We don't sell is valid, but I think Warp was more thinking along the
> lines of not selling and making sure nobody else can sell it. More like
> Coke buying all the countries main distributors, and forcing them not to
> transport Pepsi. Possibly legal in the US but definitely illegal in the EU.

	But from what I understand, that's not what is happening. If a single
entity owns all the ISPs and does this, I can see the problem (and it'd
be a monopoly issue). However, if you have multiple independent ISP's -
as long as they don't collude about what services not to provide, the
analogy doesn't work.

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