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.
Just can’t imagine how these people don’t see their actions promote greater use of encryption