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August 24, 2007
Money, Bureaucracy Kill WHOIS Privacy Reform
Ars Technica reports that WHOIS privacy reforms have reached a dead end, thanks in part to attempts by intellectual property lawyers, law enforcement and bankers to ensure registrant information could be exposed on demand to "pursue bad actors" which I'll take to mean "find copyright infringers."
Compounding the issue: Registrars make good money selling registrants back their own privacy in the form of proxy services. "[A]s long as the registrars have a commercial interest in the outcome, reform to the current system will be very slow," concludes the writeup.
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