alt Hacker NewsI agree in principle. The tech community naturally has a tendency to reach for tech solutions to societal problems. But without jurisdiction, laws are meaningless.
If you create a law that says you have to honour robots.txt files, what do you do if an IP from another country fails to do so?
You check the laws of your country. Likely they say that DDOS are criminal offences, and you can get 10 or 20 years of jail time, already.
Then you report a crime and send the logs. And maybe report to some politician that is tough on crime. And you are not alone.
I am sure you follow through, Pls check also my other comments.
Laws without enforcement are meaningless, without jurisdiction they are less effective.
Maybe yes, some poor guy will find a letter that says he needs to pay 50 USD or EUR to some faraway country because the puzzle app in his tv has weird ToS. Or whatever, a cease and desist letter? A “you are part of a hacking circle please uninstall this app” letter, signed by a judge?
I don’t advocate for people getting thrown in jail, I just think that the whole “residential proxies” issue might be a charade that would not last longer if citizens and businesses would claim rights instead of play victim.
I also really dislike grasping for a tech solution because I don’t want to start to mine crypto to read an article or to depend on some “free” cloud service to host an open bug tracker.
It just feels so weird: why is it that no-one is doing it? I feel like I an one “comment away” from someone explaining to me how naive I am, and yet it’s never coming.