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<div>If I’m reading this correctly, you are raising an interesting question, are the very people opposing a transfer policy doing it to increase the value of their own assets?</div>
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<div>Not something I’d actually considered but its a rather intriguing question.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Sunday, 7 February 2016 at 12:57 PM<br>
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<div>If there is an need, and someone willing to pay for that need, there always supply.</div>
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<div>Legalise only make things cheaper, does not change the fact about demand always will be satisfied regardless the legislation.</div>
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<div>1930s US banned alcohol, the only effectiveness of such legislation is making everyone supplies alcohol happy because now same product ten times the price.</div>
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<div>According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States</a>, doctors made over 40m USD(600M USD in today's money) in whiskey prescription. Mafia group made much
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<div>Same goes for the transfer market, if you think anyone selling IP is evil, then forbidding a transfer policy only make the price higher for them to sell, in which, make the person who selling it happier.</div>
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The information required by AFRINIC to justify an end-user's IP address requirements include addressing needs, network infrastructure and future plans. Such information is required when an LIR is requesting IP space for their end-users at the time of sending
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IP addresses used solely for connecting an end-user to a service provider (e.g., point-to-point links) are considered as part of the service provider's infrastructure. Such addresses should only be registered as part of the service provider's infrastructure.
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