Interesting post and some good points.
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Originally Posted by wootpr0n
The internet is already regulated enough.
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With the amount of fraud, piracy and illegal content being put out this statement is clearly wrong.
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China "regulates" the internet and look how much crap SPAM and pirated software and fraud is coming out of China.
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As you clearly point out here. If it were properly regulated people would not be able to send out or profit from sending out Spam and pirating.
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The government will always act in its own best interests. The people in power make rules to keep themselves in power. The US government already has a war on porn. Regulation will just make it easier for them.
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The Government in the US never closed down porn in the US. They have the biggest porn magazines, DVDs and cable publishers of porn. The US is the biggest porn industry in the world. So why do you think they would ban it from the Internet?
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And regulating the internet doesn't work. The internet doesn't belong to one country. It is global. Who's standards are they going to use? If you ask a middle eastern country, 95% of the internet would be blocked. If you ask the Dutch, they won't care. So the US trying to implement unilateral regulations would be moot, and we can always use a proxy to get to blocked websites.
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Very good point and an individual countries and standards should always take precedent over any International agreement or rules. Yes it would be hard to do, does that make it something we should not attempt?
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And this whole idea of taking your domain name away if you do something illegal is stupid. A KY Court already took away some gambling domain names, and since the registrar(GoDaddy) had no backbone, it actually complied.
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Banning and even deleting domains of people who break the rules or laws is an option.
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With your idea of regulations, if I posted a link to a video hosted on a tube site, and you complained (to a regulatory body, not a Court, mind you), they would immediately take the GFY.com domain name away.
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Are you saying you should be allowed to pirate so long as it's on the Internet? I'm confused.
If GFY risked losing it's domain because you posted illegal stolen property they would not allow you to post it. Yes if you pirate content on someone elses site both you and the site should be liable to some penalty. Again are you saying piracy should be allowed?