At 12:02 PM 8/31/03 -0700, Tim May wrote:

He said: "An ISP is free to say "anyone requesting a tap is required to

pay a fee," just as any ISP is free to say that it will handle installation of special Carnivore equipment for a certain fee."

A customer of the ISP is certainly _not_ the one requesting a tap. And he is certainly not the one installing Carnivore equipment.

If you rent your house, and the renters cause you to get billed for something they do, you can certainly pass on the cost to the renter. If you get a ticket in a rented car, you (not the car owner) reimburse the owner. If your ISP gets a lot of complaints about your usage, they *could* pass on the cost to you. An ISP could regard its court-ordered hassles (or other hassles, eg attacks launched from your node) as your fault.