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Interview with ICANN's Karl Auerbach

Posted by timothy on from the look-but-don't-touch dept.

katie writes "Great interview! ICANN, the Infofascist organization which rules the Internet with more effective power than any government, was told yesterday to 'fess up and show its knickers to reform-minded Board member Karl Auerbach. DesktopLinux.com Contributing Editor Malcolm Dean interviewed Auerbach at the Los Angeles Superior Court ..."

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  1. DMCA Virus (Envcrypted Virus) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Nobody would be allowed to decrypt an encrypted virus. If a Anti Virus Company writes software to protect against it or says how to protect against such a virus, it would violate DMCA. This would be the virus's ultimate protection against drugs.

  2. My take ... by SuperDuG · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Basically I see it like this, Karl Auerbach is a pain in the ass. And a good pain in the ass. He knows his way around the governing procedures that ICANN holds sacred and pisses on the "unwritten" rules of procedure whenever he feels like it. ICANN has a thorn that they placed in their own side, by opening elections they basically shot themselves in the foot. Now they're trying to hold on to what they once had before democracy came over and sideswiped them completely into submission. There seems to be some sort of thought that voting holds no power, if you think that, then you are just as much to blame as the rest.

    While he may be leaving in November, do you really think that he will just go into submissive hiding? Hell no he won't, he'll go on to be one of the biggest advocates against ICANN, you can count on it.

    Is this some type of new trend? Hell no it's not, basically it's a revolution, every now and then there needs to be someone to stir the pot up. It WILL happen in congress, it is ALWAYS happening in the supreme court, and well it's a little harder in the presidency, but has happened.

    As usual, with anything ICANN related, it's time to plug OpenNIC again. Tired of ICANN, don't support them ... duh :-)

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    Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
  3. John Gilmore's Salon Interview by wfrp01 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    John presents his take on things in an recent Salon interview.

    And what's SAIC up to these days (read John's interview)? Homeland security. They're on our side (cough).

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    --Lawrence Lessig for Congress!