Volume difference with older crawlers?

Don't various ISPs ask for permission to use your router to anonymise web accesses?

Be rather tricky to do, but couldn't a bunch of small website owners sue one of them for damages, on the basis they are actively facilitating unwanted traffic and abuse?

I know I go on about fraud and abuse (small letter initial), but basing it upon the English laws of trespass, using someone else's property when you "knew or should have known" that permission would be refused, is a criminal offense. The mere fact these people are desperate to hide their identity is a blatant admission they know the "knew or should have known" bar is passed.

I don't know how far such a lawsuit would get in the UK (and the fact it would be a criminal suit means the DPP probably wouldn't be interested), but the "anti-social"ness is clear. It's just finding some way of turning the "at someone else's expense" into something you can sue over :-(

Cheers,
Wol