[x-pubpol] Vint Cerf @Atmosphere

[Joly MacFie]

http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/14/vint-cerf/

Cerf also spoke out against the Department of Homeland Security’s recent
> seizures of websites, such as last year’s seizure of scores of music sites
> and communities for copyright violations, which he called “a blunt
> instrument that can and should be exercised much more carefully.
>


> As the one site owner told this correspondent at the time, the sites were
> being seized “without any previous complaint or notice from any court…
> While I was contacting GoDaddy I noticed the DNS had changed. Godaddy had
> no idea what was going on and until now they do not understand the
> situation, and they say it was totally from ICANN [via the Department of
> Homeland Security].”
>


> Cerf said this was a step out of line, even in the name of IP protection.
> “Even our own government is beginning to go overboard in the protection of
> copyright…
>


> “The open ability to develop new applications and try them out has been
> vital to the Internet’s growth and to the space in which we currently
> operate. It has interesting ways of enhancing both sides of the equation.”
>


> He told the audience, “Remember, governance is a big word that includes
> human rights, freedom of speech, economic transactions on a worldwide basis
> — it touches everything. It’s everywhere, and that’s why Internet
> governance is topic A in many corners.”


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