https://reclaimthenet.org/china-lead-un-wipo-copyright-domains/
https://archive.is/txBbG
Earlier this month, China nominated a candidate to become the next leader of the United Nations' (UN) World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). WIPO administrates the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) – a policy that allows copyright holders to seize web domains and has been criticized for its excessive clampdowns against domain holders.
Concerns over China exporting its censorship through US companies have been on the rise over the last few months. If China's candidate is elected as the head of WIPO, it would give China greater influence over the UDPR and the associated confiscation of domains under this policy.
Critics of UDPR include digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) which describes it as a policy that has "been used to clamp down on legitimate parody and criticism in ways that domestic trademark law would not allow.
[...] Wang will compete against six other candidates:
- Daren Tang (Singapore): The head of Singapore's Intellectual Property Office
- Kenichiro Natsume (Japan): A senior official in WIPO's Legal and International Affairs Department
- Saule Tlevlessova (Kazakhstan): The president of the Eurasian Patent Organization
- Edward Kwakwa (Ghana): A senior director in WIPO's Department for Traditional Knowledge and Global Challenges
- Marco Alemán (Colombia): WIPO's top patent lawyer
- Dámaso Pardo (Argentina): The president of Argentina's National Institute of Industrial Property
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 02 2019, @10:46PM (2 children)
"communism" and "intellectual property"
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 02 2019, @11:36PM
mod up. For real.
(Score: 3, Funny) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Tuesday December 03 2019, @03:28AM
You misspelled "imaginary".
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 4, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Monday December 02 2019, @10:49PM
All of the candidates in that list look like poor choices. They will all try to extend the reach of IP as far as they can, to the delight of the entertainment cartel.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Gaaark on Monday December 02 2019, @10:58PM (5 children)
They should have a Canadian: we love everybody and if you give us a good beer, we do the right thing.
DON'T give us a good beer and we still do the right thing.....or we say Sorry.
....or Trudeau cries and apologizes.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday December 02 2019, @11:08PM (2 children)
Well, if you're nominating a Canadian, then you're nominating a Chinaman anyway. There is such a thing as being too nice, and that's what the few remaining non-insectoids are up in Canada.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 03 2019, @02:16AM
You know I'm really curious, if you can't tell the difference between all orientals, how can you tell the difference between all white folks - by your logic they could all be Ruskies.. please start shooting randomly already.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday December 03 2019, @02:33AM
Unfortunately... We do seem to be heading in that direction.... :(
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 03 2019, @01:12PM
And you have never lost a war.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday December 03 2019, @02:05PM
Not during hockey season.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 02 2019, @10:59PM
*clears throut*
*moves lips closer to microphone*
*begins speaking in a soft, whispered voice*
"Thanks Obama!"
(Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Monday December 02 2019, @11:09PM (6 children)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root [wikipedia.org]
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 02 2019, @11:43PM (4 children)
If you want to convince anyone outside of your basement to use an alt root, you need to be a big corporation like Google or Cloudflare, and you need to buy a memorable IP address like 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1.
I fucking dare you to start SoylentRoot, just so you can watch nobody use it.
(Score: 2) by exaeta on Tuesday December 03 2019, @12:21AM (2 children)
The Government is a Bird
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 03 2019, @12:51AM (1 child)
The last time I used an alternative DNS root, I was working at a non-profit. I thought it would be neat to configure the whole office with alternative DNS. Then the TLD servers for .org changed, and the alternative root didn't update their glue in a timely manner, because the drunken frat boys who ran the root servers didn't care about any TLD that they didn't use. So down .org went. I never used an alternate root again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 03 2019, @05:30AM
/r/thatHappened
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday December 03 2019, @01:34PM
How do you know they haven't already boldly done it?
(Score: 5, Interesting) by exaeta on Monday December 02 2019, @11:53PM
Alternative DNS root wont work because it conflicts with existing DNS.
My proposal, DRS, would not, because all DRS hostnames contain ~ which is illegal in a DNS name, so your web browser could support both. Contains ~? must be DRS! No ~? Must be DNS.
Like this idea? Want details? Show your support? exaeta (at) protonmail.com
The Government is a Bird
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 02 2019, @11:13PM (2 children)
He said wang
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 02 2019, @11:59PM (1 child)
That was wong of him.
tiananmensquare.com
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 03 2019, @02:18AM
But he will still wing it
(Score: 4, Interesting) by exaeta on Monday December 02 2019, @11:49PM (5 children)
DRS = Distributed Record Service. The DNS alternative I've suggested before. It's easily a one man project to do the server software, but administration would require a community.
I would like to launch a DNS alternative, stuff like this going to keep popping up. DNS administration is broken. My model: Each TLD is assigned to a country, no *.com, only ~us.com.*, ~uk.com.*, . etc. Each country keeps its batshit to itself. Each country manages the domains under its TLD via its own legal system.
China can control ~cn.* exclusively, United States controls ~us.* exclusively, etc. No *.com to bitch about on the intermational level with pseudo world governments to deal with. No China fucking with your domain under ~us.*, etc.
The Government is a Bird
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Tuesday December 03 2019, @12:43AM (1 child)
That's actually a pretty interesting idea. Guessing the odds gamblers will bet on on how long it will take FB et al to corrupt the new model somehow.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 2) by exaeta on Tuesday December 03 2019, @03:45AM
The Government is a Bird
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Grishnakh on Tuesday December 03 2019, @01:34AM (2 children)
Isn't this a little backwards? Shouldn't it be *.com.us~, *.com.uk~, *.com.cn~, etc.? We're already used to going from smallest to largest (subdomain, domain, TLD, optional country code), not the reverse.
Other than that, I've thought for a very long time that this is how DNS should have been organized all along (minus the ~ of course). As long as we have separate nation-states, they're never going to fully agree on how to administer something together, so the easiest thing to do is for them to all have their own namespace, separated by country code.
(Score: 2) by exaeta on Tuesday December 03 2019, @01:42AM (1 child)
The Government is a Bird
(Score: 2) by exaeta on Tuesday December 03 2019, @01:47AM
I meant to say left to right better. Please add edit button soylent admins.
It's kinda ugly, but most characters have other meanings (":" is port, "@" is identification etc.)
Another advantage of left to right is that it makes it more clear if a domain is DRS v.s. DNS by virtue of being different, and it makes URL spoofing harder since just showing the front of the URL is enough to tell if the domain is legit.
The Government is a Bird
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 02 2019, @11:58PM
Give them the middle finger, the damned fascists.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 03 2019, @12:43AM (1 child)
It is a hotbed of anti-China sentiment.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 03 2019, @02:40AM
Oh, come on. It's been nearly 2 hours since the last anti-Chinese rant and only 6 in the last day. Get over it, already.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 03 2019, @01:00AM
His sister is number four prostitute in all of Khazakhstan.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 03 2019, @01:16AM
That traitor gave control of the internet to the UN.
None of the countries of the 7 people are good about free speech. Japan is the closest to being OK, standing well above the rest. China??? Dear my. It'd be like when Saudi Arabia got to lead that UN group focused on women. Let's just go all the way, choosing a North Korean next time.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Tuesday December 03 2019, @11:34AM (1 child)
This is bad news for winnie the pooh, and every other idea.
I am not sure why the UN has a domain seizing body, it seems like that is an expansion in power and not a very democratic one, it could lead to a very small number of people, or skynet, having veto power over any and all ideas on planet earth.
Even possession of the list of top 10 UN seized domains this year might get you droned or worse.
Seems to me like to date a website has never killed anyone, hurt anyone, or started any revolts, looks to me like humans do all of those things.
To think you can win an argument through domain seizure that you can't win through dialogue is the wrong timeline here, like people who aren't very bright are taking over and don't want us to know.
Don't worry, Ethos Capital is on it. /s
thesesystemsarefailing.net
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 03 2019, @01:16PM
It might be interesting to see Xi try to battle Pooh (in protection of the mouse) on a world stage.
I'll grab the popcorn.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 03 2019, @07:36PM
https://handshake.org [handshake.org]