save our communications

[Sam Smith <42margaret@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please, please allow us to continue the present .net spaces.

The corporations who are pushing the agenda of total control are 
anti-innovation in that anything they do not control by copyright is to 
be deemed illegal.
I have the right of free communication and sharing what I create with 
whoever I wish.  If I create a picture or write an article, I have the 
right to use it as I wish.
"Site operators accused of copyright infringement should be sued in the 
appropriate courts, which can issue injunctions during or after the 
proceeding, on the basis of evidence. It is not appropriate to ask 
Verisign to adjudicate technically complex copyright claims. The outcome 
will be similar to what we've seen already: overreaching claims, 
seizures of legitimate sites, and a shoot-first, ask-questions-later 
approach characteristic of the IPC's members."
2. PRIVATE DOMAIN REGISTRATION IS A FEATURE, NOT A BUG

Unlike Happy Mutants or the IPC, many domain registrants are private 
individuals, lacking a commercial office, PO box or other address for 
use in domain registration. Compelling registrars to publish their 
customers' home addresses on the public Internet isn't a "best practice" 
-- it's a privacy disaster in the making, a gift to identity thieves and 
stalkers, and anything but common sense. We don't publish our home 
addresses on the Internet, and neither do the people who pay the bills 
at the IPC. Why should everyone else be required to, just to save the 
IPC's members the trouble of securing a court order when they believe 
their rights are being infringed?"
This is ANTI-SMALL BUSINESS at it's worst.

Thank you,  Susan Lehrer