Ignore the IPC

["Dan Dumond" <ddumond@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would like to file my objections to the comments filed by the
Intellectual Property Constituency, available here:

http://forum.icann.org/lists/net-agreement-renewal/pdfTeYfTqqAOg.pdf

Domain seizures have not worked to prevent infringement and do not
appropriately provide due process. 

In the past year extrajudicial of domains on the behalf of the IPC and
its members has resulted in the erroneous seizure of 80,000 websites and
their replacement with an incorrect warning that they had previously
hosted child pornography.

http://boingboing.net/2011/02/17/dhs-erroneously-seiz.html

In the meantime every site seized has managed to find a way back onto
the net within hours or days. 

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/do-domain-seizures-keep-streaming-sites-down.ars

The proper forum for the complaints of the IPC and it's members is a
court of law, where they can file a lawsuit and work through the justice
system just like any other organization or citizen in this country.

Privacy is a feature, not a bug. 

Many domain registrants are private individuals, and lack a commercial
office or PO box with which to register. Requiring they publish their
home address to register is a step too far in a time where privacy has
become an increasingly rare and valuable concern. The general public
should not be required to do something the IPC itself doesn't do, just
to give the IPC an easier time pursuing their outdated business model. 

For these reasons, please disregard the comments of the IPC in their
entirety.

Thank you,

Dan Dumond