RIAA threatens ICANN over domain names2011-01-20 09:28 by DanielaTags: RIAA, ICANN
The Recording Industry Association of America has turned its sights on ICANN, the body responsible for managing domain names. At issue is ICANN's plan to allow a series of new generic top level domains (gTLDs), including .music. The RIAA reckons - apparently seriously - that simply allowing such TLDs to exist will encourage music piracy. In a letter to ICANN chairman Peter Dengate-Thrush,Victoria Sheckler, deputy general counsel of the RIAA, says the organization is concerned that the process for objecting to a new TLD sets the bar too high. "Under the current proposed standard, we fear that we will have no realistic ability to object if a pirate chooses to hijack a music themed gTLD to enable wide scale copyright infringement of our works," she says. Read more -here-
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sava700 - 2011-01-20 11:03
the RIAA needs to go on somewhere and stop wasting time on things they can't stop.
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