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Originally Posted by Splum
Please explain to us dumb and ignorant people how .xxx is going to hurt the industry as a WHOLE? Sure it may hurt many of us who have made brands and invested lots of money in our current .coms but dont you think if .xxx is implimented it would be regulated and legitimize our industry a bit? This is our problem, we are not looked at as a legitimate industry.
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In addition to the filtering issue already mentioned:
If all your sponsors are wasting their resources on trademark litigation, your affiliate payouts will have to be lower.
If all your sponsors have to spend their dough on rebranding new domains, your affiliate payouts will have to be lower.
Most importantly, who gets to decide what goes on a .XXX domain? Access to information about birth control and breast cancer and homosexuality and outsider art and all differing political views could all be fairly effortlessly sent to Siberia, if this goes through.
Web sites fundamentally are something which should enable the more free exchange of ideas and information. The totalitarian potential of a system which allows web sites to be easily ghettoized and subjected to bizarre and unusual regulation . . . well, it is appalling and staggering.
Lastly, if you want to know how this could impact you directly: Although this won't impact
me negatively at all, if they impose stricter copyright and record-keeping rules as proposed on .XXX domains, then folks with your business model will be fined and statutory-damaged to kingdom come.