US business interests are rabid about intellectual property

I can't believe how much money US businesses waste on intellectual property protection - I'm even more amazed at how much they expect to be granted the unfettered protection rights at the expense of everyone else.

Check out the comment archive on Whois - the basic summary is that U.S. IP interests are all freaked out that whois might change. What's even more amazing about each of these comments is that it is clear that they are working as a coordinated lobby - most of the comments are completely ignorant about the proposal that they are criticizing. And oblivious to the fact that IP interests actually contributed to the set of compromises that the oPOC proposal represents.

Folks - it looks like you are going to get screwed again by the intellectual property lobby.

(For those that might care, the oPOC proposal is a simple step forward that allows registrants to appoint an operational point of contact much in the same way that they can currently appoint and administrative or technical contact. Because of the overlap between the responsibilities of the oPOC and that tech/admin contacts, it seemed to make good sense to get rid of those contacts. At the same time, registrants would no longer be required to have their personally identifiable contact information published via the whois - oPOCs would, just not registrants.)