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.
What’s next? Do they maybe also want landlords to cancel renting agreements over this? Supermarkets to not sell to these people?
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I was about to type a very angry reply until I realized you were taking the piss. I need sleep.
Well, Panera was getting sued over their energy drinks, so maybe that’s not without precedent.
Fucking cunts. That’s not a bad move you have to agree, KYC killed crypto ATMs and the general boom of all that.
And so the straight-jacket tightens a bit more…