[FYI] Seven years jail, $150,000 fine if you don?t tell the world your email and home address
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Seven years jail, $150,000 fine if you don?t tell the world your
email and home address
By Kieren McCarthy
Posted: 05/02/2004 at 22:13 GMT
If you don?t tell the world your email, home address and telephone
number you could face a seven-year jail sentence and a $150,000 fine
under new legislation that the US Congress is trying to push past
today.
Senator Lamar Smith of Texas - chairman of the Courts, the Internet
and Intellectual Property Subcommittee of the House Judiciary
Committee - yesterday produced from nowhere extensions to the 1946
Trademark Act that would make giving false contact information for a
domain name a civil and criminal offence.
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