Need for sane ISP's?

[Michael Holstein]

> Is there a need for a 'by the books' ISP/hoster based in the USA?
>   

It's a capitalist market. If someone's willing to pay the premium for
that type of service, it'll be offered.

The reason it isn't is that each warrant, subpoena, DMCA request, etc.
requires an army of technicians, lawyers, and the like to deal with.
Just because you might be immune under US law doesn't stop them from
suing you, and you needing to pay council to go in there and defend you
(and your techs to testify, outside experts, etc.).

It doesn't take very many of those cases to drive up costs.

If you can justify the need for your own ASN (because you're
multi-homed, etc.) then you *become* the ISP. This is completely
impractical for an end-user, but it's how Universities (and the like)
get away with hosting the nodes .. there's nobody else to complain to
but the entity itself.

Cheers,

Michael Holstein
Cleveland State University