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Rightsholders Want U.S. “Know Your Customer” Proposal to Include Domain Name Services * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Glass0448 to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] refalo@programming.dev 10 points 6 months ago

The proposal is very clear about this exclusion. Since domain name registrars and registries don’t host any content, they fall outside its scope.

Actually it is already possible to do this, there are even tools made specifically for doing so.

Plus if the registrar also provides DNS services, that can be used to "host" content (or links to it) as well.

[–] drwho@beehaw.org 6 points 6 months ago

Sounds like they want to crack down on seedboxes.