OK - thanks Mike. The Public Interest Registry is US-based and licenses Afilias to manage it. Bonkers. BTW Richard O'Dwyer extradition ruling expected Friday.
- Richard is facing extradition for a UK-based .com hosting links to copyrighted content. Similar UK prosecutions have failed, mere links haven't been shown to be infringing under UK law, so the US is attempting to extradite him to face Jammie-Thomas-style "justice". A US official contact told me (off the record) this was happening because "Verisign is a US company, users of .com web addresses subject themselves to US justice". Erik Barnett then told pretty much the same thing to Peter Walker at the Guardian.
Mike, I'm not 100% sure but I believe .org is indeed an overseas jurisdiction (from a US perspective). Afilias, an Irish-headquartered organisation, took over running .org about a decade ago.
This perhaps explains how TPB has survived the ICE In Our Sites seizure program?
That was the Site Blocking report, released the same time as the report into reducing cost of appeals. At the time I believed the appeals doc was *properly* redacted, but maybe I didn't grab a copy in time. Or maybe it *was* properly redacted, but someone leaked it anyway?
Look at it another way - the music industry expects to recoup this ?6m investment somehow, either by suing a significant proportion of repeat "infringers" or getting more music sales.
Since all studies to date (2 authoritative) plus anecdotal evidence (Guy sells a million eBooks at 99c - nets $350,000) show that lowering price is the key to making more money from legitimate download sales I'd say it's probably not option 2.
So they need to recoup ?6m from suing repeat "offenders". But by the tone of recent judgements they're going to have a job proving the ISP account holder is liable for what's happening on their network, so essentially that's ?6m down the pan.
And the government? Well they're locked in now too. If they don't implement this, it's ?6m wasted that they'll never get back. At least when warning letters start landing on doormats the taxpayer is going to start seeing some returns (all but the ?215,626.49 sent on non-reimbursable items).
Re: Re: .org *is* AFAIK an overseas provider (Ireland)
OK - thanks Mike. The Public Interest Registry is US-based and licenses Afilias to manage it. Bonkers. BTW Richard O'Dwyer extradition ruling expected Friday.
- Richard is facing extradition for a UK-based .com hosting links to copyrighted content. Similar UK prosecutions have failed, mere links haven't been shown to be infringing under UK law, so the US is attempting to extradite him to face Jammie-Thomas-style "justice". A US official contact told me (off the record) this was happening because "Verisign is a US company, users of .com web addresses subject themselves to US justice". Erik Barnett then told pretty much the same thing to Peter Walker at the Guardian.
.org *is* AFAIK an overseas provider (Ireland)
Mike, I'm not 100% sure but I believe .org is indeed an overseas jurisdiction (from a US perspective). Afilias, an Irish-headquartered organisation, took over running .org about a decade ago.
This perhaps explains how TPB has survived the ICE In Our Sites seizure program?
James Firth
Re: A bit late with this
That was the Site Blocking report, released the same time as the report into reducing cost of appeals. At the time I believed the appeals doc was *properly* redacted, but maybe I didn't grab a copy in time. Or maybe it *was* properly redacted, but someone leaked it anyway?
@JamesFirth
Recouping ?6m...
Look at it another way - the music industry expects to recoup this ?6m investment somehow, either by suing a significant proportion of repeat "infringers" or getting more music sales.
Since all studies to date (2 authoritative) plus anecdotal evidence (Guy sells a million eBooks at 99c - nets $350,000) show that lowering price is the key to making more money from legitimate download sales I'd say it's probably not option 2.
So they need to recoup ?6m from suing repeat "offenders". But by the tone of recent judgements they're going to have a job proving the ISP account holder is liable for what's happening on their network, so essentially that's ?6m down the pan.
And the government? Well they're locked in now too. If they don't implement this, it's ?6m wasted that they'll never get back. At least when warning letters start landing on doormats the taxpayer is going to start seeing some returns (all but the ?215,626.49 sent on non-reimbursable items).
So yes, I think it's a big deal.
@JamesFirth