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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
That is a possible scenario and could it be stopped in the courts?
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The point that I think is so very relevant when you talk about the courts -- and many people like to argue that any attempts to mandate .XXX would be defeated -- is simply this: at what cost, and who pays?
We know the attorneys make out like bandits. But someone has to pay the bills.
I once heard an attorney describe .XXX as "forced dues paying" to me. So option one is to roll the cost of lawsuits into .XXX domains themselves, and make the people who buy into .XXX pay the bill. There's justice in that really. But the problem is then the entity that most stands to benefit from .XXX is the one fighting mandates that would make them a ton of money? How would that make sense?
The second option would be for the FSC to fight; once again then the people who support the FSC, the people opposed to .XXX happening in the first place, now have to pick up the bill.
And then as attorney Jeffrey Douglas said at the panel... even if you are coming from the best position in the world and it seems impossible to lose, sometimes you lose anyway.
Sadly there's nothing that can be done about any of this now, unless there's some means to sue ICANN and end .XXX -- or at least delay its implementation. But even then... more $$$$$.