Originally Posted by Varius

That's why I asked before if that's an American thing....in Canada at all the datacentres I know, they will easily block your C Class or null your IPs but never heard of any fines that go along with it. Maybe it's just their particular datacentre though.

Although, even in that case, I pretty sure any DC will give atleast one warning to the host before ANY such action. So the host, SI in this case, could have discontinued service / access to Bdjuf to avoid it going on and getting fined