3/15 What does Akamai's policy say will happen if I Akamaize my web site
images (e.g., http://a388.g.akamai.net/7/388/21/efde45df123456/www.mysite.com/images/image.gif
and not tell them? Will I get in trouble big time? Small time?
Not at all?
\_ You're an Akamai customer, right? Read your contract.
\_ No, I'm not. -- original poster
\_ IIRC, when you do this, you are pretty much stealing someone else's
Akamai bandwidth, and they will be billed accordingly. There was
some discussion of this on the mailing list of Peacefire, a group
opposed to censorware. Since Akamai has deep pockets, censorware
vendors won't block it, and, consequently, you can use Akamai sites
to view blocked URLs. Peacefire published the exploit. Though
the morality of this is suspect, thus far, I have not heard of
anyone being punished for using it. -dans
\_ I used to work there, if you want the scoop contact me. --aaron |