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Rightsholders Want U.S. “Know Your Customer” Proposal to Include Domain Name Services * TorrentFreak
(torrentfreak.com)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/10026267
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/10026266
The U.S. Department of Commerce has proposed new customer verification requirements for Infrastructure as a Service providers. The goal of the 'Know Your Customer' regime is to prevent fraud and abuse, including piracy. In response to this plan, prominent rightsholders want the department to expand the proposal's scope to include domain name registrars and registries. Ideally, they argue, domain companies should also be required to take down pirate domains.
Prediction: Once everything is an app, there'll be no need for generic encryption and anyone found using it will be labelled a terrorist enabler and locked up.
Yeah, that whole angle has me wondering if changing my own habits to gain privacy that the average person doesn't get will just put a target on my back. If they want to spy on everyone to figure out who is a danger to the ruling class and status quo, they could eventually just start treating anyone that they can't spy on as suspects and either use other mechanisms to break through that privacy to make sure or just criminalize that stuff.
They were trying but I think the last round of laws failed because they'd have to admit that the current commonly used encryption schemes have backdoors and wouldn't need to be banned when the whole question of "what about business uses?" came up.