Seven years jail, $150,000 fine if you don't tell the world your email and home address
Steve Schear
s.schear at comcast.net
Sat Feb 7 09:28:43 PST 2004
Senator Lamar Smith of Texas - chairman of the Courts, the Internet and
Intellectual Property Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee -
yesterday produced from nowhere extensions to the 1946 Trademark Act that
would make giving false contact information for a domain name a civil and
criminal offence.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/35376.html
A foolish Constitutional inconsistency is the hobgoblin of freedom, adored
by judges and demagogue statesmen.
- Steve Schear
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