Congress Fed Up With WhoIs Database
 

Intresting..but can they enforce it?


WASHINGTON, D.C. ? The U.S. government is rallying for legislation that would heighten the penalty for online fraud committed by a person using a website registered under a false name or contact information, particularly through the WhoIs database, which is overseen by the domain registrars.

The bill was drafted by Reps. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Howard Berman (D-Calif.) and if passed could add seven years jail time to the current penalty. The law is written in such a way as to give federal prosecutors stronger punch when it comes to pursuing criminal offenses against intellectual property rights.

http://xbiz.com/articles/index.php?article_idp=1081

for fuck sakes.. seven extra years jail to please software and copyright owners. :321GFY

so will everybody be changing their whois info to europe and canada?

lmao, how can they even think that people will comply?

With millions of people in the database, I think it will take years to decipher through them all to find the bogus ones.If it helps stop the spammers , that would be great.