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Zoe Lofgren Wants To Slow Down Domain Seizures By ICE & DOJ
GovTechGuy writes "Rep. Zoe Lofgren sat down with Roll Call to discuss her proposal to slow down the seizure of domain names accused of piracy by the federal government. Lofgren turned to Reddit for help formulating the bill, and also discussed whether her colleagues in Congress know enough about technology to make informed decisions on tech policy."
She "also discussed whether her colleagues in Congress know enough about technology to make informed decisions on tech policy".
This is one of those trick questions, right? I mean, "No, next question." is too easy, right?
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
Nothing to worry about, MAFIAA has already dispatched a squad to deal with her.
I thought the ICE was melting due to global warming.
Fortunately there has been a bit of snow here which has made most of the slick ice that happened with the freezing rain over the weekend have a bit more traction so you can walk on it.
And theres no highs above freezing in the next 7 days forecast
with Springsteen?
These agencies of the US government are abusing the DNS system, our DNS system. We should replace or at least supplement DNS with something they can't abuse, something peer2peer. Nothing short of that will fix the DNS abuse we keep seeing.
Namecoin was a good idea but it's not going to work as currently implemented. Maybe something similar could.
Just take a look at Ted Stevens' "series of tubes" comment to see the ineptitude of congress. Lets say, for the sake of argument that Stevens was "dumbing it down" for his peers in congress and he was well versed in techno-babble. He himself felt that it was necessary because he felt that his peers didn't know wtf he would be talking about by speaking intelligently and, therefore, they were not capable of making informed decisions. Now, if we go to the side of the coin where we assume Stevens had no idea what he was talking about, then the person attempting to make an argument didn't know a damn thing about technology and we're still screwed.
I, for one, believe there should be some sort of test you need to pass to prove you have basic understandings of certain things before you can represent others. Or, better yet, choose people in the field to make policy; go to MIT, Stanford, IBM, Microsoft, Google, etc and make a tech representation senate. We don't NEED everyone in the government making decisions on everything; spread out the responsibility to those who are experts.
-SaNo
That and MPAA chief and ex-Senator Chris Dodd complaining that Congress isn't bought enough. Dodd "suggested in a Fox News interview that Hollywood would cut off campaign funds for President Obama and other lawmakers who withdrew support. 'I spent 36 years on Capitol Hill and have great personal friends, and you'd think they'd know better.'"
I thought the ICE was melting due to global warming.
If the pirates are winning, how is there still a warming trend? This must disprove Pastafarianism.
Quoting from the linked article:
âoePhysical goods can be held in escrow or in a warehouse and they wonâ(TM)t necessarily decay or degrade,â
Many goods are perishable. Many that are not are also "part of a process" as well.
Imagine if a small-business brick-and-mortar movie store was credibly accused of piracy and the cops came in and seized ALL of the DVDs and waited weeks or months to return those that weren't reasonably suspected of being pirated. They value of that inventory would likely go down over time, especially for recently released titles.
Imagine if the cops went one step further and padlocked the building. The business would be unable to pay its rent or mortgage and would likely be forced into bankruptcy.
Now, you can argue that a store that is pirating doesn't deserve to be in business in the first place, but that's what we have courts and "due process" for. Let the industry sue for fair damages and injunctions. If actual criminal acts occur, the the government file charges in criminal court. A conviction on any serious charge will shut down most small- and medium-sized companies.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Quoting from the linked article, 2nd try:
"Physical goods can be held in escrow or in a warehouse and they won't necessarily decay or degrade,"
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Jesus, you don't even read the comments anymore? Why do you people browse this site?
Meant to include this link: http://www.rollcall.com/news/seeing_the_internet_as_a_place_for_freedom_to_flourish-220070-1.html From the post: "I don’t want to critique my colleagues. My degree was in political science, not computer science. So, you have to teach yourself. I spend as much time as possible trying to become a knowledgeable person. I don’t claim to be an expert, but I’ve read a lot of books and I’ve taken some courses on how to do some simple programming. And I actually did some simple programming a long time ago in college. So I’m not an expert, but you need to have at least some concept of how the technology works to avoid making mistakes." --Lofgren
The dajaz1 case shows government can't be trusted
I made a mistake. What's the biggest flaw of Namecoin?
We should replace or at least supplement DNS with something they can't abuse, something peer2peer.
Namecoin perhaps? It's a parallel DNS authority forked from Bitcoin.
Yeah I meantioned that. Seems you didn't get to the end of my comment. Anyway - namecoin as currently implemented is prone to exactly the same domain squating problem that conventional DNS suffers from. It needs a solution to that, and that's not so easy to design.
Maybe something like a small cost to register a name you already have a .com for ( provable by adding a text record to the .com ), and a very high cost if you don't. Maybe also a landgrab like phase where users can only register the domains they own the .com for. Repeat for all other generic domains and leave the country code domains managed by the countries.
Then add as many new generic domains as we like. .net, .org, .info, .name, and so on.
I made a mistake. What's the biggest flaw of Namecoin?
Domain squatting due to the low cost of registering domains. Also there is nothing to stop me or you registering 'microsoft'.
See my comment above.
Out of the corner of my eye I saw Dolph Lundgren... might have really changed the fight...