Please do not change the rule protecting our privacy

[<shelley.just@xxxxxxxxx>]

How do you define “commercial”? Some would say a site like Amazon’s is a 
commercial site, while others would say any site that’s related, albeit even 
loosely, to a profit making activity is “commercial”. 

I write books for a living. I talk about my books on my site. Does that make it 
a commercial site? 

If I run ads to help support one of my sites, does that make it commercial? 
Even if the money is only used to pay the site’s expenses, and I don’t profit 
from the ads?

Exposing my personal home information and phone number can lead to me being 
harassed, and even harmed. 

I can see exposing the information if it leads people to a store front or 
public business location--but not to a personal home address, no matter what 
the purpose of the site. 


The entertainment companies have the means now to discover people’s names and 
contact information. They’ve never been handicapped in the past in this regard. 
They’re just getting lazy and sloppy. Well, they have legal departments, and 
filing the court papers to discover a person’s name and address costs very 
little. They’re just going to have to do some work in their relentless drive to 
protect the world against some poor slop who accidentally included a snippet 
from some song. 


Shelley Powers






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