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Court Rules That Using Domain Registration Privacy Services Represents 'Material Falsification'
Lots of people use private registration services for domain names, that lets them register a domain name while keeping their own identities private. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to do so: they don't want spam or they want to keep the identity of the site owners anonymous. However, in a recent spam lawsuit, the Ninth Circuit court of appeals has said that using such a service is "material falsification" of information:
[P]rivate registration is a service that allows registration of a domain name in a manner that conceals the actual registrant's identity from the public absent a subpoena. We fail to perceive any vagueness on this point. Based on the plain meaning of the relevant ...
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Stop Wallowing And Start Doing Cool Stuff With Business Models, The Wil Wheaton Edition
26 Nov 2009. Source: Tech Dirt. We gently knocked Wil Wheaton recently for saying some things that we thought were a bit wrongheaded in terms of dealing with people copying his work -- while noting that for the most part he absolute... -
Researchers: Copying And Imitation Is Good For Society
26 Nov 2009. Source: Tech Dirt. When we talk about intellectual property issues, many maximalists on both the copyright and patent side of things have this inherent sense that "copying" is "bad." Not just "bad," it's downright immo... -
Steve Jobs Tells Startup Startup To Change Names, Saying 'It's No Big Deal'
26 Nov 2009. Source: Tech Dirt. Reader mick alerts us to the story of a small eight-person startup that makes a popular app for backing up your iPod music, which had been called "iPodRip" until Steve Jobs and Apple's lawyers got inv... -
Profitable 'Pay Us Or We'll Sue You For File Sharing' Scheme About To Send 30,000 More Letters
26 Nov 2009. Source: Tech Dirt. Remember ACS:Law? The shakedown organization that appears to have taken over where Davenport Lyons left off (including using some of the identical documents), and who has "partnered" with DigiProtect... -
UK Police Arresting People Just To Add To DNA Database?
26 Nov 2009. Source: Tech Dirt. We were just talking about how pretty much any government database will get abused by government employees eventually. But it's not just on the accessing or revealing of data that this can happen. H... -
Funny How Those In Favor Of ACTA Are Against Treaty Providing More Access To Content For Vision Impaired
26 Nov 2009. Source: Tech Dirt. It seems pretty bizarre that companies and industry organizations would be against helping those with reading disabilities or vision impairment -- but that's exactly what you get in the discussion ove... -
Advertising As Content: Newspaper Raising Newsstand Prices For Thanksgiving Papers With Black Friday Ads
26 Nov 2009. Source: Tech Dirt. With newspapers struggling with declining sales and subscriptions, it seems that a few of the major newspaper chains have realized that when they have a newspaper with something of real value to a lot... -
Are Entertainment Industry Tactics Working?
25 Nov 2009. Source: Tech Dirt. It's been somewhat amusing over the last day or so to see a bunch of our usual critics all submit the same exact story with some sort of triumphant "I told you so!!!!!" (usually in less friendly langu... -
Photographer Compares Microstock Sites To Pollution And Drug Dealing
25 Nov 2009. Source: Tech Dirt. I guess it's natural to lash out at technologies and companies that undermine a business model built up on artificial barriers and scarcity, but it won't do much good in terms of actually adapting. B... -
If Movie Piracy Is Really A Problem, It's Hollywood's Fault
25 Nov 2009. Source: Tech Dirt. The folks in Hollywood have been working overtime lately trying to convince the world that piracy is harming the industry, even as the industry is having its best year ever in terms of both money made...
