|
As a host and ISP I agree with Brad. We have seen over the years everything he has pointed out and as a provider we have to stand in the middle of the road.
We cannot take personal preference into business, its just something we cannot do. As he mentioned people need to become familiar wit DMCA, why is this such an important topic? Pretty easy it lays the ground work for what we can and cannot do as a provider and what our responsibilities are. We must remain neutral in a business stand point in order to avoid being prosecuted by the law. What does this mean? Simple we cannot police our network and "look" for stolen content, child porn and all the related stuff that falls in this category, if we do we must do it 100% of the time and if something is "found" we are now held liable 100% as our customer is that was the owner of the machine.
Now how does this impact .xxx and our decision to host it? We remain neutral in our stance on technology, we don't favor one thing over the other everyone and thing is treated as an equal its a simple TLD. Yes it is unfortunate that people will have to spend money to protect their brands but thats part of doing business. .XXX will most certainly lead to DMCA complaints, trade mark infringements and C&D requests this is a given so we have to stand neutral and work with these procedures as every day business would normally be conducted.
Under US law and our rights no one will force people to do .xxx registration and "filter" sites out. While there are companies such as spamhaus that offer a blacklist of ips/etc that block sites its a paid subscription, same with mcafee internet, Trendmicro and norton. We can't stop companies from making these registries and selling the subscriptions, however they cannot also blanket a .com because there is a .xxx equivalent if this happens I am sure hell would break lose as people would register .xxx just to get their competition blocked which then leads to a whole can of worms.
Personally all I see with .xxx is just a venue for someone to make money off of it by selling the domain names and nothing more.
|