All, This should send a more significant message to the RIAA and as far as ICANN is concerned, the IPC a message that if the IPC is wise, will assist it in revoking the RIAA's membership, or council them in a harsh but necessary manner... Councilor Beckerman, and outstanding legal mind, has framed the situation in a reasonable and appropriate manner. One can only hope that ICANN's Bod and staff will take the hint... Lets also hope it gives the GNSO council the proper perspective in respect to the GNSO review report recently released and amend that report accordingly. http://beckermanlegal.com/ NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "I was afforded the opportunity to write for a slightly different audience the judges who belong to the http://www.abanet.org/jd/home.html Judicial Division of the American Bar Association. I was invited by the http://www.abanet.org/jd/publications/jjournal/ The Judges Journal, their quarterly publication, to do a piece on the RIAA litigations for the ABA's Summer 2008 'Equal Access to Justice' issue. What I came up with was ' http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2008/07/aba-judges-journal-art... Large Recording Companies vs. The Defenseless: Some Common Sense Solutions to the Challenges of the RIAA Litigations,' in which I describe the unfairness of these cases and make 15 suggestions as to how the courts could level the playing field. I'm hoping the judges mod my article '+5 Insightful,' but I'd settle for '+3 Informative. ' Here is the http://beckermanlegal.com/Documents/080729LargeRecordingCompaniesVsTheDefens... actual article (PDF). (If anyone out there can send me a decent HTML version of it, I'll run that one up the flagpole as well.)" Wired is http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/riaa-critic-bec.html helping to spread the word on Ray's article. Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 281k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827