When it's individuals making lawsuits against big companies, it's extortion. When it's **AA filing the same lawsuits against individuals, it's business as usual.
You've caught them now! ICANN is a secret anti-christian organization working for the scary "liberal media"!
Or maybe the article is really just about the.xxx domain and why some people might not agree with how US interest groups seem to have a great deal of influence over an "international committee".
Bullshit. You have it backwards. People digitally scanning and illegally distributing said materials will drive the books to extinction. Not the other way round.
People digitally scanning and illegally distributing said materials will drive the music to extinction.
I know several best selling authors. All of them make less than 20K a year on their writing. They write novels, not articles. We're talking about novels, not articles.
And..
You know some people getting screwed by their publishers, what does this have to do with Google? You know that Google isn't giving the books away for free right? The only reason publishers are fighting this is because they see themselves on the verge of extinction. It has nothing to do with what's good for the industry, writers or consumers.
All the publishers are doing by dragging this out is allowing piracy to establish itself. People are going to digitally scan, copy and share books if someone isn't there to sell them.
Wrong, publishers are against Google because they don't want to lose their share of the market. Authors are against piracy of their books.
These two aren't the same thing, as Google is a "for profit" company.
More importantly, outside of assigning IP addresses, is it possible to govern?
The only thing that makes the current root servers authoritative is that people choose to point to them.
1. For the time being, maintain the status quo of having ICANN responsible for the assignment of IPv4 addresses.
IANA assigns IPv4 addresses.
2. Transition into IPv6 by assigning blocks of IP addresses to all countries. Perhaps leaving some addresses for space stations, the moon, mars, etc. Do this though multi-national treaties. This is where the United Nations can help out, but the UN should only be a facilitator. Remember, the Internet is an agreement among nations.
It's sort of done like this already.
3. Have each country be responsible for assigning its block of IP addresses, and for the management of their TLDs.
Countries are already responsible for managing their own TLDs.
4. Transfer.com,.org, and.edu management to some sort of NGO (ICANN for example), with the purpose being for multi-national corporations, organizations, and institutions of higher education who do not associate with any particular nation (for example would be icrc.org)
aka. Leave it exactly the way it is, but rename ICANN.
A home DSL router with NAT turns your unpatched Windows XP box into a bastion of security compared to having it sit out in the open directly attached to your cable modem.
The funny part being is that if they revoke their license as a carrier, all the members of the union that Telus was trying to silence will be out of a job.
Dream on. If a user is throwing away a whole PC to deal with spyware, you are living in a fantasy land if you think they will make it through any Linux install (let alone using it after completion).
You can't have an unbiased non-profit organization perform a TCO on Windows vs. Linux. Why? Because every company is different.
They provide different services, products, etc. So the TCO is different for every single company because they are going to use Windows or Linux differently. They have different entrenched processes, they have different skill sets for their employees, it's just all different.
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Why not call pretexting what it is -- stealing using social engineering.
Because you are going to decrypt your terrorist documents to avoid a slap on the wrist?
In the real world, it's called copyright infringement.
Unless you paid for your copy of XP, why should Microsoft care? You aren't a customer.
John who?
When it's individuals making lawsuits against big companies, it's extortion. When it's **AA filing the same lawsuits against individuals, it's business as usual.
You've caught them now! ICANN is a secret anti-christian organization working for the scary "liberal media"! Or maybe the article is really just about the .xxx domain and why some people might not agree with how US interest groups seem to have a great deal of influence over an "international committee".
Seems to me that's a world wide effort, unless the US is paying to lay fiber outside of it's borders.
I would like to thank Christian fundamentalists for helping to continue to make access to pornography easy for children. Keep up the good work.
Actually, according to your logic those bundled versions of Linux are shit-faces forcing software down on you just like M$. Cry more..
C'mon now? AD with server..??..??! M$ also bundles telnet with the OS as well! Oh noes!
I've also heard that Microsoft bundles bits with bytes.
You mean, regulate content coming from web servers within the US.
Bullshit. You have it backwards. People digitally scanning and illegally distributing said materials will drive the books to extinction. Not the other way round.
People digitally scanning and illegally distributing said materials will drive the music to extinction.
Nuff said.
In the long run, ISPs who share privilege information will go out of business. Exactly.
They didn't because in the future Google is going to be their competition. Which is exactly why the publishers are fighting them.
I know several best selling authors. All of them make less than 20K a year on their writing. They write novels, not articles. We're talking about novels, not articles.
And..
You know some people getting screwed by their publishers, what does this have to do with Google? You know that Google isn't giving the books away for free right? The only reason publishers are fighting this is because they see themselves on the verge of extinction. It has nothing to do with what's good for the industry, writers or consumers.
All the publishers are doing by dragging this out is allowing piracy to establish itself. People are going to digitally scan, copy and share books if someone isn't there to sell them.
Wrong, publishers are against Google because they don't want to lose their share of the market. Authors are against piracy of their books. These two aren't the same thing, as Google is a "for profit" company.
More importantly, outside of assigning IP addresses, is it possible to govern? The only thing that makes the current root servers authoritative is that people choose to point to them.
1. For the time being, maintain the status quo of having ICANN responsible for the assignment of IPv4 addresses.
.com, .org, and .edu management to some sort of NGO (ICANN for example), with the purpose being for multi-national corporations, organizations, and institutions of higher education who do not associate with any particular nation (for example would be icrc.org)
IANA assigns IPv4 addresses.
2. Transition into IPv6 by assigning blocks of IP addresses to all countries. Perhaps leaving some addresses for space stations, the moon, mars, etc. Do this though multi-national treaties. This is where the United Nations can help out, but the UN should only be a facilitator. Remember, the Internet is an agreement among nations.
It's sort of done like this already.
3. Have each country be responsible for assigning its block of IP addresses, and for the management of their TLDs.
Countries are already responsible for managing their own TLDs.
4. Transfer
aka. Leave it exactly the way it is, but rename ICANN.
A home DSL router with NAT turns your unpatched Windows XP box into a bastion of security compared to having it sit out in the open directly attached to your cable modem.
You mean, you'd wonder where all your end-users went?
The funny part being is that if they revoke their license as a carrier, all the members of the union that Telus was trying to silence will be out of a job.
Dream on. If a user is throwing away a whole PC to deal with spyware, you are living in a fantasy land if you think they will make it through any Linux install (let alone using it after completion).
You can't have an unbiased non-profit organization perform a TCO on Windows vs. Linux. Why? Because every company is different.
They provide different services, products, etc. So the TCO is different for every single company because they are going to use Windows or Linux differently. They have different entrenched processes, they have different skill sets for their employees, it's just all different.