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Re:EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data... by cat199 on Monday September 16, 2019 @02:17PM (#20987000)
agree it's an overkill solution -

but, devils advocate, maybe it's just there to scare off potential spammers/scammers?

Having worked at an ISP in security/spam/abuse, these people are a huge drain on resources.

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Re:EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data... by danShumway on Monday September 16, 2019 @02:24PM (#20987064)
Speaking as a consumer, I'm kind of tired of companies giving themselves enormous amounts of power and then saying, "don't worry, we won't use it."

That's not a professional relationship to me. And I would hazard a guess that if I tried to contract with EasyDNS and added clauses that gave myself similar amounts of power over them, they wouldn't be as trusting of me.

The point of a legal document is to set explicit boundaries, not to set a "tone" to the relationship or scare off scammers. Setting tone is what your FAQ is for.

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Re:EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data... by FDSGSG on Monday September 16, 2019 @02:21PM (#20987027)
>but, devils advocate, maybe it's just there to scare off potential spammers/scammers?

Why are you engaging in these bizarre mental gymnastics to defend this? The threat is made in a context strictly unrelated to spammers/scammers.

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Re:EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data... by soraminazuki on Monday September 16, 2019 @07:41PM (#20989653)
It doesn't matter because it also scares off everyone else also wanting to do business with them.
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