Dec. 23, 2010
10:14 p.m.
On 12/22/2010 10:40 AM, Bill Silverstein wrote:
It is not vigilante justice to know the identity of the owner of a domain name.
Oh yes indeed it is. It is most definitely vigilante action to take away the right of an accused - merely on the basis of that accusation. In this case the rights are those of privacy and due process.
The problem is, especially when trying to track spammers, is that is this a misguided bad actor sending spam from advertising one site, or is this a criminal organization sending advertising for thousands of sites?
The burden of making the case ought to be on the one making the accusation - of do we want the kind of "justice" that Kafka described in "The Trial"? --karl--