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The moral? We're all in the wrong business (Score:1)
Let's be generous and call it 5 years. That's still over 8 million per year. Seriously, don't we all feel a bit stupid, having looked down on those loathesome pr0n peddlers?
(not that pr0n is bad - I love them myself, especially fried in batter)
I hope this doesn't set too much of a trend (Score:2)
If legitimate but similar names start being subject to this kind of monetary damage ($65M, from the article), I fear for the future. Let's hope this stays well in hand.
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Re:What are you talking about? (Score:2)
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Re:Well.. yeah.. (Score:2)
See how easy that jump is (for a clueless judge)?
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Talk about slow... (Score:1)
Plus they used the infinitely more amusing and subtle headline, sex.com changes hands [theregister.co.uk] on a previous occasion
Of course, the money-related story is reported here [theregister.co.uk].
There seems to be a definite trend now where The Register gets all the cool stories waaaay before Slashdot, and writes them far more amusingly and insightfully than the editors here.
Re:Talk about slow... (Score:1)
So, to be honest, it's probably only a matter of time....
ISO Country Code TLDs (Score:1)
Straw Man? (Score:2)
I'm no hardcore Bible-thumper, but you've certainly taken a few passages out of context... read them with the surrounding lines, and you'll get the full picture. 1 Corinthians 7:1-12 [gospelcom.net] in its full context is better understood when one should and should not marry.
More power to you if you can build a strong argument for your case, whatever that might be. I always look forward to intelligent discourse. But you stooped rather low to get your point across.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
So where does this leave NetSol? (Score:2)
sue Network Solutions and ICANN too (Score:2)
name ownership and IP bindings.
Other organzizations names have been stolen too,
but more as short term hacks.
They should *always* send a change notification &
verification to the original address, much like
banks do.
Re:Only a portal? Won't violate any obscenity laws (Score:1)
I don't find that particularly disturbing to see at sex.com, I'm sure you as well as minors the world over knew what to expect. It is impossible to prevent minors from viewing porn on the Internet if they are interested enough in it. Let's face it - few things are as motivated as a horny 14-year-old. I'm not one anymore but I can remember...
Re:Domain name worth more than the business? (Score:1)
I think it's a reasonable argument to make in certain circumstances. For example, say the site made $100 after it was stolen from you. But you have better content, a better team, and better marketing, and so you could have made $500 off of it in that time. In this case it makes sense that the damages would be close to what your actual losses were. To do otherwise would be to penalize the victim because they were ripped off by someone who had less business sense.
This wouldn't work in the licensing situation, of course, because no one would agree to that. But no one's asking the defendant to agree to the damages assessed against them. Things are different if a crime has been committed.
Re:I'm glad it's over, but I doubt he'll ever see (Score:2)
Re:A blow for pornographers and thieves (Score:1)
What happens is that if a man views porn regularly, he gets a very distorted view of sex and women, which can cause two things. First he will treat women that do allow him to become close to them in ways that are (for many women) highly inappropriate, which is abuse of those women, and damaging to an otherwise good relationship. And secondly he will be approaching all women with this distorted view, which will cause him to find it more difficult to form relationships with women, and lead back, via frustration, to yet more porn. Its a negative feedback loop, and one that some men find very hard to see their way clear from. This is potentially harmful and dangerous to these men and the women around them.
Lost profits?? (Score:1)
This has to be wrong. No one makes a profit on the internet!
Re:The whole DNS system should be redesigned (Score:2)
Shouldn't that be ".mil.us"?
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Re:Presidential pardon material here... (Score:2)
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Never gonna get paid.. (Score:2)
Gotta catch him first before anyone gets paid..
--jordan
Re:The whole DNS system should be redesigned (Score:2)
The
The
Admitedly it will take more than a simple
What are you talking about? (Score:2)
The guy 100% *stole* the domain, using forged transfer documents... and it took 6 years for the courts to give it back....
what I want to know is why couldn't he get it back way before that?
Wrong. (Score:2)
Well.. yeah.. (Score:2)
That's like saying "I'm glad they punished that mass murderer, but I hope it doesn't lead to punishing innocent schoolchildren because they disobeyed their teachers."
Re:The whole DNS system should be redesigned (Score:1)
Doh! The Canadian economy goes south, and Canadian Tire scales back, closes all international offices, cancels all international contracts... once again, the tech dudes have to get into high gear to get that ".ca" BACK on the domain name... this time at the behest of the law, rather than just the pointy-haireds.
It just seems like more work than it's worth...
Re:Porn is *not* art (Score:1)
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Re:The whole DNS system should be redesigned (Score:1)
I would prefer, e.g., //www.coca-cola.us.com, or .uk.com.
If this method had been adopted initially, it would also have stopped the endless tirade of "dot-com" this and that.
I like .com, .org, .net, .mil, .gov, etc., .They are all useful and individual domains, so I would keep those as the root domain, and work backwards from there, adding a .uk.com, or something.
Re:Porn is *not* art (Score:1)
That was probably a good thing when watching "Eyes Wide Shut" - after the big porno scene with orgies, etc., the movie basically sucked, so you saved yourself the agony of trying to watch Cruise et Kidman try and act.
No. Michaelangelo's David is art celebrating the beauty of God's creation, Debbie Does Dallas is just immoral smut designed to appeal to the pruriant tastes of sad lonely men. There can be no artistic merit in films made with exploitation and abuse.
I think that is exactly the point I made; pornography was the art in olden times, and yes, Debbie Does Dallas is immoral smut (and not very good either.....) . I said this, not you. I said that it was only when advanced technology that porn became what it is today. Stop stealing my lines.
Catholics venerate the saints, and the Virgin Mary. Indeed, in the confessional they place Mary on the same level as the Lord, obviously in direct contradiction with the Ten Commandments. Hence, they are really no more than a cult with Christian pretensions.
Ehhh.......no. Educate yourself. Even a little. I won't argue here because such statements from you are clearly of a purile development stage.
Sorry, but your morals dictate what is right. That should be obvious, even to an unbeliever!!!
The irony of it all is that I am utterly right with what appears as a crazy statement. Again, throughout history, morals in name of god and religion have caused more hardship and anguish to people than any pornopgraphy has. More wars are started in the name of the moral right than for any other reason.
If your religion dictates your morals, which they clearly do (you have indicated as such several times), I would like to see if you judge your religions moral basis as having been unconditionally right in it's history. The discrepancies you can not but find justify the statement. In the case of religion, Israeli's fight palestinians in a classic religious war. Each side feels they are morally entitled to the holy land. But, it is not right that they kill kids, etc., which they are doing.
I think this proves my point that morals can indeed differ from what is right. Q-E-fucking-D.
Re:Porn is *not* art (Score:1)
Thnx for the correction!
Porn is not immoral, it's just mostly bad quality (Score:2)
I thought you didn't watch porn (you said in your earlier response) - or are you going to use the old "it was part of the movie" line?
Sex is there for the purposes of procreation and between two people married with God's blessing. Pornography is quite simply the antithesis of this idea, in that it encourages promiscuity without responsibility, a dangerous idea for any society that wishes to hold itself to any kind of moral values.
I don't think you can make grand sweeping statements like this. It's gross generalisation and clearly massive speculation that promiscuity is encouraged by pornography. Throughout history pornography was more of an art form to celebrate the beauty of god's creation ; it's merely with advanced technology that it's become what it is today, which is different.
But aside from that, it is arguable as to whether Catholicism is even really a Christian denomination, given the fact that Catholics do not solely worship God.
Now this is a very bad comment to make. It's arguable whether you know what Christianity actually is, after reading this statement. Are you saying Catholics, as opposed to Protestants, worship multiple gods? Elaborate......
Because sex is not something to be used to satiate the urges of weaker people. That is pure and simply immoral.
Hmmm, but maybe it can be used to do that, to treat sex offenders, etc., . You seem overtly concerned with maintaining a high moral code and never once mentioning the more significant problems, such as abuse, etc., . Above all, remember that you should never let your morals get in the way of doing what is right.
I won't defend the porn industry, but likewise I think your argument against it was ill-founded and from the wrong point-of-view, as you seemed more concerned with yourself, and your own beliefs, than a far more due concern about the women who feel compelled to work in the industry, by choice or not.
If you lost the high-and-mighty attitude, maybe people would listen to you, as yes, there are thousands of women forced to work in the sex industry; articles are regularly in papers concerning illegal immigrants, etc., and being forced into prostitution.
Re:The whole DNS system should be redesigned (Score:2)
Problem is that
*.ky.us -- Would first be under state law of Kentucky, then under Fedral law of USA.
*.melbourne.au -- First under local Melbourne law, then under national law of Australia.
*.atlanta.ga.us -- First under Atlanta city law, then under Georgia state law, then under US Federal.
I simply can't think of a better system to use to allow for local laws and regulations to be enforced, and yet allow for national corporations to have a world-wide presence.
This already the way the
I beileve this is the type of system that should have been implemented from he beginning, but at the time no one had the foresight to see that the internet and the web would become what it has today...
Plenty of people have though of it, in some parts of the world things were even done that way. However at some point things went seriously wrong, probably the point at which names began to be seen as land/mineral rights rather than addresses/telephone numbers.
Re:The whole DNS system should be redesigned (Score:2)
But most DNS names relate to physical entities. Very few commercial entities are even capable of operating globally. Typically they are restricted by geography (or currency).
Even supposed abstracts such as books, music, TV and films tend to be made avaliable in a way which follows geography.
Re:Pass the crack pipe (Score:2)
The problem is that a great many of these might actually be better off with geographical suffixes. If their area of interest is geospecific
Re:The whole DNS system should be redesigned (Score:2)
Also there are plenty of companies, especially in large countries, such as US, Canada, Australia, Russia, etc, who's operations are strictly sub national.
Another point is that US cities shouldn't be able to hijack the domain names of other nations, just because they don't like
The
The same reasoning can probably be applied to
Re:The whole DNS system should be redesigned (Score:2)
Which is part of the problem. Also even if a
What about my subscription? (Score:1)
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How? (Score:1)
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Re:How? (Score:2)
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Re:Domain name worth more than the business? (Score:1)
> So hey, sure, why not codify that into case law
> as well? And what a business plan: "Sure, I'll
> license you to use the name ThisDomain.com next
> year - in exchange for 105% of the revenues you
> earn from it
the license should confer a right to possess [and use] why you retain the right to own the domain name. the retention of owner ship would preclude any claim to compensation, you can't be conpensated for loss of ownership if you never lose the ownership.
i'd be interested to see if there is a claim agains network solutions for breaching the standard of care in that they were advised that the change of ownership was a fraudulent act.
if this was a clerical error between two different registries then it would be difficult [but not impossilbe] to cancel a change of ownership request [due to the lack of legal content to the 'contract']. when the dot com TLD name space is broken up, a protocol for dealing with clerical and human errors between registries would be helpful, useful, damn well essential.
[duty of care from DONOGHUE v STEVENSON [1932] All ER Rep 1 [HL].
I blame the English - honest! (Score:1)
i'm assuming that any server situated physically within the countries jurisdiction would be subject to the host countries laws and any foreign domain name would be subject to their own countries domain laws/regulations and not the host country.
you might want to maintain the .com, .net TLD for use by international companies which want to publish non-geographical centric information. another benefit is an easier migration of coke.com to coke.com.us.
i blame the English for this mess.
when they first issued postage stamps, there wasn't a need to include Englands name on English postage stamps because they were the only country issue postage stamps. in order for the English to deliver your letters bearing a foreign postage stamp, your country had to agree to include their own countries name on their own stamps. Every country accepted this condition because the British Empire carried more than 75% of the postage traffic during the late 19th century.
the USA just used the same precedent, there wasn't a need to issue .com.us and .net.us because the 3 letter TLD name space was more about 80% of the domain names during the 80's.
I'm glad it's over, but I doubt he'll ever see $ (Score:1)
Presidential pardon material here... (Score:2)
Maybe he could hire a Bush's brother-in-law to lobby for him.
Re:The whole DNS system should be redesigned (Score:1)
That's interesting - I come to the opposite conclusion. Because the internet is international, what should I care where a site is hosted?
The bigger issue, I recon, would be users (and site owners) balking at the length of the URL. coke.com is much sexier than coke.atlanta.ga.com or whatever.
But you've given me an idea for standardizing e-mail addresses. Example:
monte.protestant.caucasion.male@hoodyhoo.com
This should help clear up chat-room confusion.
Julian Jaynes (Score:2)
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Studies (Score:3)
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Re:Domain name worth more than the business? (Score:1)
Your domain is stolen, so you lose your $x per day. There are also potential customers who would have bought something in the future (maybe they're still shopping around), but now they think your business doesn't exist and never comes back again.
Now you may have spent $y on advertising and promotion to get that customer here in the first place, now you've lost them and you have to spend more to get them back.
Clearly having a domain stolen constitutes more damages than actual running revenue
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Re:good old days of yore (Score:2)
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Re:Right (Score:2)
If they have a habit, they need the chance to get rehab. If they weren't doing porn for a fix do you think they'd just quit "cold turkey"? Of course not.
Taking advantage of people in need isn't limited to the porn industry you know.
Re:Natural act? (Score:2)
So many faults, so little time:
1. Sodomy is a natural act because it occurs "naturally". For example, most mammals will happily bugger each other. They don't do it because they're too stupid to find the right hole (well, some of them might), they do it because they have a "natural" desire to fqck things (normally other creatures of the same species).
2. Sodomy is not "extremely dangerous" as long as you have an modicum of common sense.
3. Sodomy is not always painful. Lots of people actually like it. Gosh! isn't it an awful world outside!
Any more fundy illusions you want shattered?
Re:Porn is *not* art (Score:2)
Director D obtains goatse.cx style pictures of actress A1 and actor A2. D blackmails A1 and A2 into doing his next film F. Film F is widely acclaimed as the finest peice of cinema ever made, and even the public love it. All agree that it is a fantastic piece of art. When details of the blackmailing emerge, all are shocked. However, all agree that the artistic merits of the film are unchanged. All apart from Jon Erikson that is, who holds that because of the blackmail, the quality of the film is now lower, and the film is now cr4p.
Move over logic, here comes the revisionism!
Re:A blow for pornographers and thieves (Score:2)
For the second, you write if a man views porn regularly, he gets a very distorted view, where you mean some men. Now maybe you can claim that porn is so dangerous that the effect it has on these people means it should be made illegal, but that's a whole new arguement. The same one can be made for alcohol (some people get addicted), cars (some people drive badly), and having children (some people are bad parents)...
Re:Natural act? (Score:2)
Your conclusion doesn't follow from your premise. For the "buggerer", anal sex counts as a fqck as much as vaginal sex. Therefore they can both want to fqck things, and bugger. There is no contradiction.
- they don't make a conscious choice between the two, they just go for it.
They don't make a conscious choice at all because they aren't concious.
Lot's of people really like to eat other people,
No they don't. Very few people like to eat other people. So, other than being completely wrong, thanks for playing
Re:A blow for pornographers and thieves (Score:3)
Regarding the post, I think it's clearly a troll becasuse he states pornography is used for "the gratification of men unable to find themselves a loving wife." implies that anyone "using" porn is unable to find a "loving wife". Given the widespread "usage" of porn, that's clearly flamebait IMO. Also "pornography is nothing more than a perversion of His [gods] vision for us". Stating such contentious beliefs (porn not used by men with a loving partner, the existance of god) as facts can only be a troll; anyone else would have put "I beleive", "IMHO", or somthing else along those lines in there.
As far as exploitation of women in porn goes, I wish people would realise that there are two issues here: exploitation AND porn:
Some people drive too fast in their cars. The cars aren't wrong, it's people driving too fast.
Some people steal because they want to be rich. It isn't wanting to be rich that's wrong, it's stealing.
Some women are exploited in the porn industry. It's not porn that's wrong, it's the people who exploit women.
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Re:Wrong (Score:3)
What a small mind you must have. Perhaps some people like both? Perhaps some people have wives that whilst loving the man, are unwilling or unable to have sex with them (for example after abuse, rape or physical disability)? Perhaps the couple are physically seperated for a period of time? Perhaps the man doesn't have bizarre hangups about it? Perhaps his wife likes it? Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.
The point is that your premise, that any married man can get as much sexual gratification from his wife as he needs and therefore doesn't need porn is both wrong, and (ironically) disrespectful to women.
Onanism is quite obviously a tool designed by the Devil to turn one's thoughts away from salvation towards more earthly pleasures.
[You get +1 troll point] If I never think of salvation when I'm having sex, does that mean that "obviously" sex must be a tool of the devil designed to turn my thoughts away from salvation? In fact I hardly ever think about salvation, so obviously almost everything is designed by the devil (he should have patented some of it).
Bzzt! Wrong! The porn industry by definition exploits women
I'm wrong
If I was offered $1 million for playgirl style photos of myself, I might or might not do it, but I certainly don't think I'd feel "exploited" if I did. Why do you think women are any different? Perhaps the answer is in this comment "from exploiting women's naivety and greed all the way up to the use of force and drugs to ensure cooperation" You seem incapable of seeing the fact that women, as well as men have minds of their own. Some people will have sex in front of a camera for money. They might be greedy, or they might not share your particular moral code. Being different to you isn't the same as being abused.
Re:The whole DNS system should be redesigned (Score:1)
usps.com -> usps.gov
goarmy.com -> army.mil
The latest IRS commercial annoys me so I mute it, but I'm sure that their online "eFile" (i- and e- rant will be saved for another day) service uses a
*grumble*
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Re:Porn is *not* art (Score:1)
Ahh, I see, but the "Jesus = G-d" paradox doesn't concern you? Webster's, by the way, disagrees with your interpretation of "venerate". Respect and reverance is hardly worship. Here's a little more food for thought:
The Ten Commandments originally appear in Exodus, one of the books of the "Old" Testament. In those 5 books, 603 other laws are mentioned. How many do Christians follow? How many can you name?
I thought so.
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Pass the crack pipe (Score:1)
You're on crack. There's all sorts of
And guess what the net was built by the US. Get off your fucking high horse.
First your entire setup drives up the resource cost for every corporation, organization, educational institution, and network service provider on the planet.
Second your entire setup makes international trade over the net impossible or comically expensive. It even blocks interstate trade. Do us all a favor and control yourself. The net doesn't belong to you.
What does the suffix apply to? The server or the client machine?
For the server:
You expect everybody to buy a server in every state they operate in?
It's the same company or organization. All those machines would be redundant. They would be out of reach of the central headquarters. You'd have to depend on generic ISPs to keep every server functional instead of being able to guarantee that companies that specialize in that sort of maintenance keep the machines intact. You'd swamp said ISPs with multiple machines that are unnecessary. You'd drive operating costs through the roof. You'd make it even less likely that less developed communities would get net access.
For the client:
Exactly as above. Only now you force companies to
buy names for every different region of the net that might view certain content even if they don't operate there.
For trade:
serverside -
If the laws in one state make it illegal to display AIDS information or contraceptive information, you force me to buy a machine in every state I put my content so each server can comply with those laws.
clientside -
Now you force every organization to load rules for their machines to act differently in every region.
Let each region deal with content as they see fit.
Think about it. I wouldn't be allowed to look at anything but linux.com.biblebelt in the bible belt of the US from the bible belt of the US.
I'd have to first drive out of the bible belt to see linux.com and still I'd only see linux.com.middle-of-nowhere.
You really are a moron you know that.
(I keep mentioning the US, because that's where I live. Get over it.)
All suffixes should be removed in my opinion. They have no relevant meaning whatsoever. As if adding
Nobody wants to take responsibility so they invent all these little umbrella rules. Get a clue or stop babbling.
Re:Pass the crack pipe (Score:1)
alas in not this century.
Re:Pass the crack pipe (Score:1)
But enough projecting.
The reason I said it would cost more money and more resources had nothing to do with how many bits are sent accross the network. It had to do with his goal of allowing local laws to have some force on the Net.
Simply setting things up by country and state code won't accomplish that goal.
Think about it. A server is in Texas. How does calling it bizname.co.tx.us help in any way to apply the laws of Paris, France where the contents might be viewed?
It doesn't. It has literally no consequence. Except perhaps to remind people that not everyone lives in their little bubble.
Now assuming we wanted this change to be useful, then the tx.us suffix has to have some meaning related to laws. For example, tx.us might mean the bizname.com version intended for Texans.
Otherwise it's just a pointless suffix just like
To say adding tx.us has any bearing on the rights of the viewer in Paris is to say that by adding
It's really just an example of a bit too much faith in symbols that have no physical connection with what they're supposed to represent. Humans are like that. Logic by association not by argument. It's quite frightening how we do that unconsciously.
And so that's where I started with my post.
I wasn't saying that he was suggesting to have a server for every region. I meant that if he wanted a tool for enhancing the applicability of laws on the net, that those costly steps would be necessary.
Re:Natural act? (Score:2)
It occurs in nature, therefore it is a natural act.
Domain name worth more than the business? (Score:3)
Hmm... admittedly, for a lot of dot-coms that's actually literally true - or at least they probably *paid* more for the domain than they ever earned back. So hey, sure, why not codify that into case law as well? And what a business plan: "Sure, I'll license you to use the name ThisDomain.com next year - in exchange for 105% of the revenues you earn from it. Sound fair?" What a screwed up system.
sex.eu.com (Score:1)
Re:Right (Score:4)
As well as in the real estate industry, politics and law enforcement. Exploitation isn't a symptom of pornography, its a symptom of humanity. Pornography just makes a great target due to the bizarre irony in our culture that everyone is either having sex or wanting to have sex, yet sex is taboo. Christ, even kids who haven't learned a damn thing about the world start getting horny and staring at fine members of the opposite sex, or same sex for some. That's the curse we bear for being human. In the words of George Carlin, "There are far worse things that you can to do another person than giving them an orgasm."
To those of you unfortunate enough to grow up in a climate of repression and hate: don't worry, sex won't destroy the world, burn down the rain forests and upset Baby Jeebus(tm); it'll just make you a bit happier and a bit sleepier if you just have the courage to let it.
Deosyne
Re:Porn is not immoral, it's just mostly bad quali (Score:1)
Anyway, might it be possible that pornography is exploitation in _some_ sense, only because we're so hung up? Our society is full of exploitations. Hell, working for a wage in the office is exploitation of a sort; but in most cases one has a choice to work elsewhere. It's the cases where someone has no choice that most people consider "exploitation". While that may be true in many cases in pornography, I doubt it's true in all cases.
Re:Natural act? (Score:1)
If you actually believe everything you say, some of which is downright offensive, and some of which goes very much against Christian ideals, then I suggest you seek help.
However, I do believe, based on your words and you bio, that you are a fake. And trust me, you receive more respect from me as a troll than as the zealot you pretend to be.
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Re:Pass the crack pipe (Score:1)
And guess what the net was built by the US. Get off your fucking high horse
Who's on the high horse then?
There are people who think that planes crashing in Chinese territory is world news
Furthermore.. I think every soverain state should have a two letter (accoring to the ISO country coding system) TLD. Current TLD owners should be able to keep their domain.
Not a good idea (Score:2)
Why base the net on geographic location? I think the original idea of basing TLDs on content is the best way to go. We need to enforce the content restrictions (.com for business, .org for organization etc) and we need to make sure registrants have good security.
Geographically based domains will make finding websites difficult, if not impossible, will make it possible to over tax businesses (as already mentioned) and any possible ways of making money on the web will disappear. I'm not a fan of e-commerce at all but I think that if there weren't any at all that the internet wouldn't be near what it is today (of course we'd probably have intellegent people on it too but that's a different angle :)
"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
microsoft.com returned to rightful owner (Score:2)
Obviously the
Thank God (Score:5)
What kind of 'studying' was this? (Score:2)
They have to have a STUDY tell them that?
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Only a portal? Won't violate any obscenity laws? (Score:2)
Oh, did I mention that this dosn't attempt to disuade minors from entering?
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Legal Precedent (Score:4)
Porn is *not* art (Score:2)
I thought you didn't watch porn (you said in your earlier response) - or are you going to use the old "it was part of the movie" line?
I don't, but I have seen films that came close to the line. Needless to say, at that point I switched them off.
Throughout history pornography was more of an art form to celebrate the beauty of god's creation ; it's merely with advanced technology that it's become what it is today, which is different.
No. Michaelangelo's David is art celebrating the beauty of God's creation, Debbie Does Dallas is just immoral smut designed to appeal to the pruriant tastes of sad lonely men. There can be no artistic merit in films made with exploitation and abuse.
Now this is a very bad comment to make. It's arguable whether you know what Christianity actually is, after reading this statement. Are you saying Catholics, as opposed to Protestants, worship multiple gods? Elaborate......
Catholics venerate the saints, and the Virgin Mary. Indeed, in the confessional they place Mary on the same level as the Lord, obviously in direct contradiction with the Ten Commandments. Hence, they are really no more than a cult with Christian pretensions.
Above all, remember that you should never let your morals get in the way of doing what is right.
Sorry, but your morals dictate what is right. That should be obvious, even to an unbeliever!!!
Re:A blow for pornographers and thieves (Score:2)
If you count living in Mexico with the $40,000,000 they can't touch in off shore bank accounts being punished.
It's good to see the legal owner got control of his site back but that was after he was forced to spend three years in court and hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs. Granted he'll now make tens of millions from the domain name but it's still got to be a bittersweet victory.
goatporn gets the recognition it deserves... (Score:4)
"We're working on a deal (for content on)
You don't normally see women orientated stuff on sex sites? No wonder all those large-pink-area filters don't work - they shouldn've been scanning for goatporn all along.
Posted early enough for the karma rich first few minutes, mentioning goatporn for a clear demotion under grounds of karmawhoring.
Re:A blow for pornographers and thieves (Score:2)
Actually, it's a positive feedback loop. Negative feedback works to cancel the orignal disturbance while positive feedback reinforces the original disturbance. In your example the subject is led through frustration to do more of what made him frustrated in the first place: positive feedback. This positive feedback will lead to oscillation if the system's loop-gain is greater than 1.
sex.com? (Score:2)
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looks like...... (Score:2)
Re:A blow for pornographers and thieves (Score:5)
Ok, you might want to take a look at this story on sexuality [kuro5hin.org] over at Kuro5hin. It's a fascinating read, one of the best things I've seen there in a while. Chock full of hard facts about the intrinsic need for sexual release in human beings.
You're not worth arguing with. You'll just apply the word "liberal" to any evidence to any argument you don't like, just like you have in all three of your posts so far.
Furthermore, your argument seems to be based on a particular pseudo-literalist reading of the Bible, so it's not like the discussion would go anywhere.
Expedited discussion with this troll:
1. I'm going to have a little fun, and quote 1 Corinthians 7:1 "Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to marry", the standard justification for primacy of celibacy over marriage, and tell you that if you really wanted to take the word of God to heart you would forsake all physical pleasure, even with your wife. I'll further support my claim with Luke 14:25-27: "If anyone comes to me and does not hate
2. You're going to writhe and scream and complain and try and explain I'm distorting the passage. You might quote me Shakespeare, and say that "the devil has the power to quote scripture" thinking you have a biblical comeback. You might quote 1 Corinth 7:2-5 as a better retort.
3. Then I'll say Christ makes clear in 7:6-7 that permanent non-marriage is a preferable state.
4. Then you'll invent a new complaint to justify ignoring the passages of the bible you dislike. Of course, by disregarging only one passage, you've kind of shot your argument that we should blindly use the Bible as a set of rules without thinking - if it's wrong there, why isn't it wrong about pornography? (Of course, the bible never mentions pornography, you can borrow the inferential references which conservative theologians find to justify anti-pornographic positions.)
5. I'll be sick of the discussion and won't reply because you will ignore any other facts I introduce into the discussion or attach the word "liberal" to them, as if I should run in terror at being called such a horrible word.
There, we condensed in all down into one post. Wait I think I got a patent idea... Expedited troll conversations via prediction of troller/trollee responses.
Re:Natural act? (Score:3)
Natural is not the same as moral or good.
Take, for example, a tiger attacking a deer. It cannot cause conception, is extremely dangerous for the animal on the receiving end and causes pain. It is perfectly natural.
So what is a "natural act"? Animals (apes, elephants, rodents) engage in sodomy. Surely that's natural?
Sex is not just for procreation. If it was, we would, like most animals, only have sex when fertile. This is not the case. It is also for bonding.
I see nothing wrong with sodomy, as long as everyone involved is consenting. "Brutal sodomy" with it's implication of non-consent I would definitely count as wrong.
Re:Right (Score:5)
But there are people out there firmly conviced that liberal attitudes about sex are perfectly healthy, and that pornography is in some way "expressive" and "naturual". Please tell me, what is natural about some woman being brutally sodomized by several men on camera?
Well, first off, I'd recommend calling brutal sodomy "morally reprehensible", as it is arguably a perfectly natural act (though, again, generally held as morally reprehensible.)
There are people out there firmly entrenched in the belief that conservative attitudes about sex are both healthier and morally higher, and that pornography is somehow "deviant" and "unnatural". These same people generally feel perfectly justified in pointing towards the most deviant, reprehensible acts of violent, aberrant behavior as prime examples of what pornography is. This is unfair.
It'd be somewhat akin to me calling Christianity a horrible, disgusting cult which has mercilessly slaughtered countless women and children over centuries in the name of appeasing an unseen deity. I'd be ignoring the fact that some of the world's greatest and most generous groups and individuals have acted out of their love of the Christian god. There is no "so, which is it, then?" It's both. Should we outlaw Christianity or claim that it's the most wonderfullest thing ever? Neither. It has both good and bad elements, people who respect it and people who abuse it.
The same holds true for pornography. While you are quick to point out that having people abused into pornography and tortured in front of a camera is (surprise) bad, the same moral compass cannot be used to denounce, say, a video made willingly (and happily) by a married couple for distribution in adult video stores. What is so unnatural (or rather, morally reprehensible) about that?
Re:A blow for pornographers and thieves (Score:2)
Re:Porn is *not* art (Score:2)
Re:A blow for pornographers and thieves (Score:2)
good old days of yore (Score:5)
Re:Wrong (Score:2)
Religion and the concept of God(s) were started thousands of years ago to control people. Think about this. You are a peasant under the service of some king 3000+ years ago. Living conditions are horrible etc... you are not happy and neither are the thousands of other peasants like you. You all outnumber the King and his nobles etc. So as the King and Nobles see this and are scared. How can we control the peasants and make sure they do not revolt. (thinking....) AHA Offer them something that CANNOT be proved. In comes God(s) and religion.
"How would you like to be in Paradise. A Place where you are the happiest you can ever be. You have no worries and you are with God. God loves you and will take care of you after you die. Now here is the catch. God loves you but wants to make sure YOU love him back so there are rules that you must obey while you are alive. You have to conform to the religion and do everything the religios leaders tell you to do (nevermind for thousands of years that religious leaders were appointed by Kings etc). You have to be a good person to society etc. Most of the rules were made to keep society stable. If society is stable and happy (looking forward to living in eternal happiness) the chances of revolts are smaller.
So if you obey these rules and live your life in a good way when you die you will go to heaven etc. This is GENIOUS plan and it WORKED. Give the people something that cannot be proven. You cannot prove heaven. You cannot prove God, and you cannot prove any religion is real or true. So how do we get around this, easy PEOPLE MUSH HAVE FAITH! By showing you have FAITH in God you are showing that you love him(her) and want to go to heaven.
This is beautiful plan, it worked and still continues to work. Religion is the biggest con in the history of humanity. If you ever read and reserach why and how the concept of religion started it will make you think twice about the whole concept.
Arathres
Re:So where does this leave NetSol? (Score:2)
What's the bet we all get to pay an extra buck per domain fairly soon to cover any damages and costs they might accrue in the proceedings? :-/
Re:Domain name worth more than the business? (Score:2)
That is easy to explain, the damages are $40 million and represent the lost business opportunity. The amount the fraudster made from the domain is not actually very relevant to the calculation of the damages. Kremen could reasonably argue that as a legitimate trader he could have formed aliances with Playboy Enterprises, Hustler and the like to generate additional revenue. These companies would not have dealt with the fraudster.
Furthermore by failing to appear and failling to release records demanded by the court the defendant made a higher award practically inevitable. A judge is almost always going to side with the guy who turns up against a fugitive.
While Kremen is unlikely to get back all the damages he is likely to obtain a significant sum. The guy who stole the domain had registered a bunch of other domains, some of which have significant value and were impounded by the court a few months back.
Another lever Kremen has is that as long as the case is not settled there is an outstanding arrest warrant. My guess is that this will lead to an eventual settlement for a percentage of the damages.
justice! (Score:2)
the register's story [theregister.co.uk]
Re:Legal Precedent (Score:2)
The decision that a domain is like a telephone number, and thus is not real estate, and therefore can't be stolen, still stands. However, it is still illegal to commit fraud to get control over it.
Re:I'm glad it's over, but I doubt he'll ever see (Score:2)
Re:Porn is *not* art (Score:2)
While I don't know about Debbie Does Dallas (haven't seen it, even though it recently passed British film censors), if you try to claim that all porn fall in this category, then you're way out there. Lots of porn is made specifically to appeal to women. And in the current market, most mainstream porn videos are targetted towards couples. Yes, there are porn out there for "sad lonely men", but there's also porn out there for happily married women, couples, and anything in between.
Why? Because there's a market for it, and because the most stereotypical market has long been saturated, and targetting other demographics, like women, gives you access to a much larger, broader market.
It shows that you haven't seen any porn... Try investigating before you make broad, sweeping claims about what is for whom. Maybe you'll even find something you like.
Re:Right (Score:2)
Yes, some standpoints are more popular than others. But that does not give you any reason to claim that there's a double standard unless you find concrete examples that the same people are supporting mutually contradictory standpoints.
As for the case here: Sure there's exploitation in porn. Sure there's exploitation in politics. And there's exploitation practically everywhere else too.
Whether that is relevant in a discussion of whether porn is bad or not, depends on whether you or someone else can show that there's more exploitation in porn than elsewhere, and if so that that extra exploitation is an inherent feature of porn, and not of specific companies or persons in the porn business.
It is also too easy to say that "she's a drug addict, so she must be exploited since she's working in porn". That is making the assumption that because someone is working in porn, and has a problem, they must automatically have been exploited. In reality there's also other possibilities:
It might be easier for someone with problems to get work in porn, since the porn business is used to stigma, and may look more favorably on other people that are stigmatised than mainstream businesses. It may be that the person doesn't have any moral objections to working in porn.
Unless you claim that hiring someone with drug problems or other problems is inherently exploitation, then making the assumption that it is inherently exploitation if they're hired to do porn require more arguments to back it up.
If someone presents evidence that there's more exploitation in porn than elsewhere, and that is a result of porn in itself and not specific players in the porn business, then yes, porn might be bad.
So far I haven't seen anyone even trying to address that question, however - the focus is normally on equating porn with exploitation without looking at who is exploiting and why, to try to find out whether the exploitation is an inherent problem with porn or with specific companies or people.
If the case is that the exploitation is a result of specific players in the business, then go after those players - force them to comply with the appropriate laws - instead of whine about the product.
Re:Natural act? (Score:2)
So what do you value more? Intelligence and strength of character, or mindless insect pleasure? It's entirely possible to balance the two, but if you go toward either extreme, you must give up some of the other.
I value intelligence and strength of character and freely chosen pleasure most. And I see it as a clear sign of intelligence and strength of character to have broken free from religious dogma, which is basically what I said in the post you replied to.
You said yourself: "As intelligent beings, we are naturally predisposed to be biased towards anything that gives us pleasure"
However, this I disagree with. Most beings, intelligent or otherwise, seek pleasure. That is one of the primary reasons sexual acts for instance typically bring pleasure: we are more likely to reproduce if the immediate act of reproduction produces a benefit for us.
Intelligent beings, on the other hand, explicitly plan their lives to increase pleasure, and to create situations and stimuli that create pleasure - such as porn.
If anything, porn is tool created specifically to give pleasure.
The weakness lie in those who accept outside pressure to let their lives be controlled, instead of choosing to live their own lives and seek pleasure.
To put it short: I value those who break with religion, and lead their lives in a way that give them pleasure and fulfilment, whether sexual or spiritual, provided they don't step on other peoples chances of the same by doing so.
Religion is oppression.
Re:Natural act? (Score:3)
This argument assumes whoever you're arguing with believe in the christian God, and care about the silly procreation argument.
It also assumes that there exists no pornography depicting the joys of procreation in a marriage.
The first is a belief that certainly has no proof, and which a great deal of humanity simply rejects.
The argument that sex is only for procreation assigns a purpose to nature, which either implies that nature is sentient, or implies a creator, which brings us back to the first argument - it's just as disputed, and certainly not proven in any way. For those of us who prefer evolution, sex is there because it works as a driving force to get living beings to procreate. And it gives pleasure because that makes it more likely that we'll procreate. But neither assigns any purpose to it. Unless you believe in a deity, sex is just a process, and have no more purpose than the oceans or the stars.
If you want to argue that since sex allows us to procreate, then procreation is it's purpose, even if it wasn't conceived by someone who assigned for a purpose, then you can just as well argue that since sex give us pleasure, then pleasure is also one of the purposes of sex. Seeings as sex is a driving force behind much of the work of man, it can even be said to be a very important purpose.
This argument can just as well be applied in the case of the existence of a "God" as well: If this God fellow didn't intend for people to have sex for fun he must be a complete idiot for making it so much fun. If sex has procreation as its purpose because procreation is one of its functions, then sex can just as well have pleasure as a purpose because pleasure is one of its functions.
You also assume that promiscuous behaviour is "dangerous idea for any society that wishes to hold itself to any kind of moral values". But that is simply wrong. It may be dangerous for a society that wishes to hold iself to any kind of christian moral values, but you are making the assumption that anyone else will share your view of what "any kind of moral values" is.
You go on to criticize even porn made willingly and happly by a married couple:
Because sex is not something to be used to satiate the urges of weaker people. That is pure and simply immoral.
Again you're assuming everyone else share your views about what is moral. You are not explaining what is unnatural or morally reprehensible, as the previous poster asks you to, instead you're just giving the blanked response that it's bad because it violates your morals.
Assuming that we agree with you that people who like porn are "weaker people" (weaker than who? The couple making the video? Presumably if they're happily making porn they like porn themselves), that still leaves us with the question of why it is bad to "willingly (and happlily)" (to quote the previous poster) do something to satiate the urges of those "weaker people"?
Unless you claim that seeing people have sex is somehow harmful?
But back to the "weaker people" part. Presumable this comes from some illution that people who watch porn are lost souls who don't believe in God.
In my eyes, if they've "lost" their faith, that makes them stronger, not weaker: They've managed to break free from the indoctrination of dogma, and to stop relying on a book of mutually inconsistent and ridiculous stories to find meaning in their lives.
Thus, that argument too breaks down if people don't agree with you from the start.
If you want to convince anyone who doesn't already share your beliefs, you better try some arguments that doesn't depend on conservative christian beliefs from the outset...
Re:A blow for pornographers and thieves (Score:3)
What happens is that if a man views porn regularly, he gets a very distorted view of sex and women, which can cause two things. First he will treat women that do allow him to become close to them in ways that are (for many women) highly inappropriate, which is abuse of those women, and damaging to an otherwise good relationship. And secondly he will be approaching all women with this distorted view, which will cause him to find it more difficult to form relationships with women, and lead back, via frustration, to yet more porn. Its a negative feedback loop, and one that some men find very hard to see their way clear from. This is potentially harmful and dangerous to these men and the women around them.
Can you please point us to ANY credible research that shows that this is the case, please?
This is an old argument, and I have yet to see any evidence for it. Several researches have concluded the opposite: That pornography serve as a healthy way of getting fantasies "out of your system", to prevent them from affecting your daily life.
Note also one of the classic mistakes made in much of the research of this issue: Many reports have described high usage of porn by rapists, and equate that with porn causing or contributing to the rape.
But those numbers are also consistent with the suggestion above that pornography serve as a way of getting fantasies out - if that is correct, then it would be natural to also find a high consumption of pornography by people who have used it to try to stay under control, but that have failed.
For a study to present credible evidence on any connection as mentioned above, the very least they would have to do would be to find a random sample of people that do use porn and a random sample of people who dont use porn, and let parts of the group that does use porn stop using it, and parts of the group that does not use porn start using it, and follow the resulting four groups over a prolonged period of time to see whether members of any of the groups are more or less likely to get abusive or to get problems handling relationships.
This page [libertus.net] presents some research (mostly supportive of porn). If you have any specifics criticism of the research presented there, or any credible research showing different results, I'd like to see references to it, to take a look at it.
You are also making the typical mistake and assuming that porn is only consumed by men, when the major market for mainstream porn videos is couples, and videos for use by couples are typically chosen and bought by the woman.
The major reasons couples cite for watching porn together? To inject fantasies and excitement into their relationship, and to explore sides of each other they do not yet know well. In other words: To get closer. How that is detrimental to a relationship, I fail to see. I can however agree that that some couples choose to do so does not mean it's right for everyone.
The whole DNS system should be redesigned (Score:2)
After several years of thought on how this whole issue could be addressed, I now have a few ideas.
First, we need to do away with all *.com, *.org, *.net, *.gov, *.mil and *.gov. These are all US-centric, and since the internet is global, are inappropriate.
My ideas lean towards the Canadian system, but somewhat different. A top-down system, from more general to more specific. An important part of my idea is that **ALL** domains should end in the two-character country codes that are already established. A few examples...
Coca-Cola (A US based corporation)
cocacola.com.us
coke.com.us
--And since they have a presence in many other countries,
coke.com.au cocacola.com.au
coke.com.uk cocacola.com.uk
coke.com.jp cocacola.com.jp (Which should be in Japanese, with links to other languages, as all should be.)
English Parliament
parliament.gov.uk
Bob's Lemonade Stand, Atlanta Georgia, USA
bobslemonade.com.atlanta.ga.us
Of course there are some holes in my argument here... I typed this up quickly to get my point across. But this will allow domains to be controlled by the laws of the country, or even locality, in which the laws are relevant. As exmaples, domains under:
*.ky.us -- Would first be under state law of Kentucky, then under Fedral law of USA.
*.melbourne.au -- First under local Melbourne law, then under national law of Australia.
*.atlanta.ga.us -- First under Atlanta city law, then under Georgia state law, then under US Federal.
I simply can't think of a better system to use to allow for local laws and regulations to be enforced, and yet allow for national corporations to have a world-wide presence. I beileve this is the type of system that should have been implemented from he beginning, but at the time no one had the foresight to see that the internet and the web would become what it has today...
Network Solutions SUCKS TOO (Score:3)
Personally I think Network Solutions should be paying some money out to Kremen also. Why? Because these bastards have been the source of a bunch of dns mess-ups. They don't give a shit about your registration. If they lose it or gives it to someone else, oh well... that's that. NetSol needs to be slapped hard to teach them a lesson well overdue.
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Did you just fart? Or do you always smell like that?
Re:A blow for pornographers and thieves (Score:2)
As far as all of the posts touting the benefits of porn go, don't be so naive as to think that it's all willing women happily gulping jizz. Yep, some, maybe even most, are willing, but if you think coercion and exploitation don't happen in the porn industry, you must just be another Kansas farm boy who believes everything they read in Playboy. Take them rose colored condoms off and wipe the cream off your monitor.
Re:A blow for pornographers and thieves (Score:2)
No one is forcing any of these women to be involved in pornography. They do it of their own free will.
No one forces you to look at pornography either.
The word SEX is synonomous with pornography on the internet. That is what makes that domain name so valuable. Would you urge "right thinking" slashdotters to email the webmaster of www.bigdicks.com urging him to put the site to good use?
Re:Right (Score:2)
I truly cannot feel sorry anything a person does to support their drug/gambling/goatsex habits. Once again that is something they started themselves.
And I don't. But there are people out there firmly conviced that liberal attitudes about sex are perfectly healthy, and that pornography is in some way "expressive" and "naturual". Please tell me, what is natural about some woman being brutally sodomized by several men on camera?
Nothing natural about it at all. But there isn't anything "Natural" about driving a car, having a job, or reading slashdot. Calling something unnatural doesn't really mean anything at all.
(I actually do disagree with anal sex for biblical reasons myself, but that is MY CHOICE, and it is not my right to enforce my choices or my morality on others).