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ICANN: We Won't Pass Judgment On Pirate Sites (torrentfreak.com)
From a TorrentFreak report:Following more pressure from rightsholders, domain name oversight body ICANN has again made it clear that it will not act as judge and jury in copyright disputes. In a letter to the president of the Intellectual Property Constituency, ICANN chief Stephen Crocker says that ICANN is neither "required or qualified" to pass judgment in such cases. This week, ICANN's Dr. Crocker responded to the April letter from IPC, confirming that his group will "bring enforcement actions" against registries and registrars that fail to include abuse warnings in their end-user agreements. However, ICANN also made it crystal clear that it won't be getting directly involved in disputes involving allegedly infringing domains. "This does not mean, however, that ICANN is required or qualified to make factual and legal determinations as to whether a Registered Name Holder or a website operator is violating applicable laws and governmental regulations, and to assess what would constitute an appropriate remedy for such activities in any particular situation," Dr. Crocker added.
Do we have a body at this level that does do that?
... ICANN't is a california.us corporation. So, it will have to bend as soon as the copytrolls manage to get the us courts on their side.
If they lose it, the replacements won't hesitate to censor everything they can.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Imagine an internet where everything posted was original content and nothing was regurgitated from some other source.
Its a dream of mine that the internet be well organized :)
That sounds tantamount to having a car dealership monitor your driving history, and repossessing the car if you use it to rob a bank.
~Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, but Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
The Intellectual Property Constituency is just looking for an easy enforcer that they can trigger with an email, instead of using the legal system designed and intended to handle intellectual property issues. It looks like little more than laziness on the part of the Intellectual Property Constituency.
That was a golden opportunity for them to have used "or" in place of "nor" to prove their point. Since they didn't, they're talking out of their arse.
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
Great point. Why go through all the rhetoric of the legal system (and continually lose) when you can send out thousands of automated emails? Hmm who do we know that loves to do that? Pretty obvious where this pressure is coming from. Kudos to ICANN for their response, it was appropriate. Now if they would only do something about the thousands of new garbage TLD's they themselves created.
Show me six lines written by the most honest man in the world, and I will find enough therein to hang him
You'll see slight variations, depending on how the original French is translated... "Qu'on me donne six lignes de la main du plus honnete homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre".
Add in the HR assholes who insist on hiring only people with Facebook accounts, and bosses will be able to manufacture a reason to fire any employee at any time.
I'm not repeating myself
I'm an X window user; I'm an ex-Windows user
But then dictionary writers intend to be descriptive not prescriptive.
Do that. Leave the legal bickering to the lawyers.