Theoretically you are correct. But, if aol AOL approaches the.pro people with even a one sixteenth-assed reason for having the aol.pro name given to AOL (which isn't hard...a site dedicated to "AOL professionals"), they will get aol.pro. Even if you got it first and your initials are A. O. L. AOL will still get it since they can sue you and your registrar into poverty. Even with the museum thing, AOL will just sponsor a museum someplace, and add aol.museum. They can buy a fleet of corporate jets (if they don't already have them) and then they "need" aol.aero. And then there's aol.coop. I guess that could be the email server for all the programmers they keep cooped up in Herndon 24/7?
Considering ICANN is run by big business for big business, who do you think will have the final say in how these names are REALLY going to be handed out?
I actually don't care much either way since I registered my last name, and my "online name" already, so I'm set.;)
Let's take an example. AOL owns aol.com, aol.net and aol.org. I assume they own other stuff like the country names, but I didn't bother checking. Aol will buy up aol.pro, aol.biz, aol.aero, aol.museum etc...as soon as they come out. If you attempt to register those names, they will sue your ass into the ground.
This is essentially an exercise in getting every big company to shell out an extra $35*number_of_new_TLDs per_year to the registrars.
What makes anyone here think that anyone except the companies that already own the whatever_name.com addresses will get any of the new addresses?
So, the new TLD's are already "mined out". This is just a brilliant plan to give the registrars more bucks.:)
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I wasn't thinking of suing. I was thinking of reporting the _criminal_ violations to the government, and having them prosecute.:) And, if they refuse, at least we will see that they only selectively enforce the DMCA, which might be worth something in and of itself.
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I was thinking about this, and it occurs to me that the DMCA might be useful here. Regarding the anti-circumvention parts, what if everyone were to use a simple encryption method like shifting charcters somehow, and everyone knew that this was the method being used by everyone else.
Everyone posts all information in this encrypted format with a suitable copyright notice, and an offer to sell the decryption device for say a trillion dollars.
Then, if you say something a company doesn't like, they can't accuse you of doing anything wrong without having broken the DMCA. The idea would be that you wouldn't sue anyone unless they were a large company who was suing you.
For example, this is my new.sig:
The following encrypted digital content is copyright 2000 John R. Arras,
all rights reserved. If you wish to peruse this content, contact me at
johna@wam.umd.edu, and I will sell you a license for the decryption
software for the low low price of 1 trillion dollars (US):
I wonder if this would actually work. You have to consider that companies will engage in industrial espionage and spying, and will be unable to help themselves reading what they can decrypt...even if they aren't allowed to under the DMCA.:P
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Theoretically you are correct. But, if aol AOL approaches the .pro people with even a one sixteenth-assed reason for having the aol.pro name given to AOL (which isn't hard...a site dedicated to "AOL professionals"), they will get aol.pro. Even if you got it first and your initials are A. O. L. AOL will still get it since they can sue you and your registrar into poverty. Even with the museum thing, AOL will just sponsor a museum someplace, and add aol.museum. They can buy a fleet of corporate jets (if they don't already have them) and then they "need" aol.aero. And then there's aol.coop. I guess that could be the email server for all the programmers they keep cooped up in Herndon 24/7?
;)
Considering ICANN is run by big business for big business, who do you think will have the final say in how these names are REALLY going to be handed out?
I actually don't care much either way since I registered my last name, and my "online name" already, so I'm set.
Let's take an example. AOL owns aol.com, aol.net and aol.org. I assume they own other stuff like the country names, but I didn't bother checking. Aol will buy up aol.pro, aol.biz, aol.aero, aol.museum etc...as soon as they come out. If you attempt to register those names, they will sue your ass into the ground.
:)
This is essentially an exercise in getting every big company to shell out an extra $35*number_of_new_TLDs per_year to the registrars.
What makes anyone here think that anyone except the companies that already own the whatever_name.com addresses will get any of the new addresses?
So, the new TLD's are already "mined out". This is just a brilliant plan to give the registrars more bucks.
I wasn't thinking of suing. I was thinking of reporting the _criminal_ violations to the government, and having them prosecute. :) And, if they refuse, at least we will see that they only selectively enforce the DMCA, which might be worth something in and of itself.
I was thinking about this, and it occurs to me that the DMCA might be useful here. Regarding the anti-circumvention parts, what if everyone were to use a simple encryption method like shifting charcters somehow, and everyone knew that this was the method being used by everyone else.
.sig:
:P
Everyone posts all information in this encrypted format with a suitable copyright notice, and an offer to sell the decryption device for say a trillion dollars.
Then, if you say something a company doesn't like, they can't accuse you of doing anything wrong without having broken the DMCA. The idea would be that you wouldn't sue anyone unless they were a large company who was suing you.
For example, this is my new
The following encrypted digital content is copyright 2000 John R. Arras, all rights reserved. If you wish to peruse this content, contact me at johna@wam.umd.edu, and I will sell you a license for the decryption software for the low low price of 1 trillion dollars (US):
Grgov hvevmgvvm, Xszkgvi gdvoev, Hvxgrlm Lmv gslfhzmw, gdl sfmwivw lmv lu gsv Wrtrgzo Nroovmmrfn Xlkbirtsg zxg hgzgvh: "Ml kvihlm hszoo xrixfnevmg z gvxsmloltrxzo nvzhfiv gszg vuuvxgrevob xlmgiloh zxxvhh gl z dlip kilgvxgvw fmwvi gsrh grgov." Kvmzogrvh ziv fk gl urev sfmwivw gslfhzmw wloozih zmw urev bvzih rm kirhlm zh xirnrmzo kvmzogrvh, zmw fk gl gdvmgb- urev sfmwivw wloozih rm xrero kvmzogrvh. Blf qfhg xlnnrggvw z uvolmb fmwvi gsrh kilerhrlm. Xlmtizgfozgrlmh, blf xirnrmzo.
I wonder if this would actually work. You have to consider that companies will engage in industrial espionage and spying, and will be unable to help themselves reading what they can decrypt...even if they aren't allowed to under the DMCA.