DMCA - There is way more abuse on the part of copyright holders sending out false notices. The folks at removeyourcontent.com are idiots. They send out false notices every day, AND they make threats of litigation without authorization from their clients. BayTSP is no better, and in the Youtube vs Viacom case, a lot of the crap that they have been doing is now coming forward.
We also need to get rid of "contributory infringement". Only direct infringement should be prosecuted. Linking to infringing content is not infringement. You can link to a page and the content could change.
Ultimately, the courts have already decided that tube sites CANNOT determine whether or not an uploaded porn video is copyrighted. The DMCA already says that you are liable for copyright infringement if you know that the infringement is taking place. What more could you possibly want? Congress isn't going to make absolute liability regardless of knowledge. That would put an end to every single hosting company. A Service Provider cannot be expected to proactively monitor every single customer all the time and detect every single instance of copyright infringement.
SPAM - It's called a SPAM filter. Gmail's is 99.9% effective. I received 10,000 SPAM e-mails in the last month, and all but 4 ended up in the SPAM folder. There were no false positives.
The idea of charging you to send e-mail is many years old. Charging a penny per e-mail could work. A typical internet user wouldn't even pay a dollar per month. But spammers would be broke. Of course, I don't know how they would implement this system. The network that is sending the e-mail would pay the network that is accepting it. But many networks wouldn't agree to this protocol and therefore wouldn't be able to send e-mail to many other networks.
Domain Name Information - It is already mandatory to keep your registration accurate, and registars investigate inaccurate domain names. Do you know how many domain names exist? Some people own thousands of names. How would we confirm the accuracy of all of their whois data? DomainsByProxy, etc already give information to the authorities in response to a valid subpoena. Smart scammers will always get away using a proxy, pre-paid credit card, false information, offshore bank account, etc. Dumb scammers will get caught. It's easy for a scammer to set up mail forwarding or a PO Box under a fake ID, and get a pre-paid cell phone.
Making it more complicated will just piss off legitimate users and drive up the costs, especially for people who park domain names.
Censorship - It sucks because sometimes you just need to say fuck. The internet isn't a street. A country can say a certain product can't be sold in a store because people pass by that store and some of them will get offended. But the internet allows you to view content of your choice.
NetNanny does not work. Smart kids will find a way around it, and stupid kids will watch the porn at their friends house. And kids with stupid parents will have computers where the NetNanny isn't on.
Countries already block sites that they don't like. Getting them to block content that YOU don't like isn't going to happen.
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
So how would I like to see the Internet regulated more? Some of these would be hard to do and they would need fine tuning but this is what law making is about.
DMCA, it needs updating. The part that holds safe the hosting company from illegal content being uploaded is being abused. It's obvious that the people uploading some of the content to Tube sites do not own it, do not have the right to upload it and are breaking copyright laws. Content producers spend money to SELL their content, not for one person to buy and 10,000 to share.
2257. The idea that anyone can post porn content without effective proof the models agreed to it and are of legal age is wrong. You need to be able to prove you own content, or have the right to post it, the models agreed to it being published and are of legal age. Today the law requires you have a line of text at the bottom of your pages.
Spamming. The companies that are the problem are those sending out millions of emails a day. They can only do it because it costs little to send them. If it cost more they would not be profitable. Maybe the end of free unlimited emails is the solution. I have servers and a lot of hosting, for a small guy. That should give me the right to send out XYZ number of emails related to the size of my servers and hosting. My domestic home connection should also allow me to send out a set number. This would cost those sending out millions a day.
Domain Registration. If you run a commercial company taking money you domain registration should be 100% correct and open to authorities and people you authorize. I have seen domain registrations that are clearly fraudulent they. If you hide there's a good chance you have a reason for it. If you want to work from your back bedroom and don't want anyone to know fine. Just expect that the registration is accurate and open to the people who need to know. The idea that you can register a domain through an anonymous registry and take money on that domain is clearly wrong. You're running a business, be business like.
That one I expect to get the most flack. 
Censorship. I see no reason other than on extreme violence, under age porn, and terrorist type activities that censorship should have a place on the Internet. However if a country has passed a law that a certain type of content is not available in a shop on their high street why should it be allowed on the Internet?
Under age access to porn. I'm not worried if a 16 year old sees a porn movie, I did and it clearly did not effect me. 
But a 6 year old should not be exposed to it. Not sure how that one would work but if they could solve it there would be a bonus for us. Maybe the easiest way is for Bill Gates to give Net Nanny away for free with every copy of Windows.
The problem of policing it across the world is not such a problem. Anyone clearly breaking the law on a repeat basis can have their site blocked by a country and yes they could eventually lose the domain. Who here would like to see Tube8 and Redtube lose their domain?
None of the above would mean the loss of porn on the Internet, in fact it could lead to more people making more money on the Adult Net.
Or we can keep going the way we are.  |