Re: [wg-review] A Reply to Miles B. Whitener... Re: The owners of "the Internet" must manage it for their own benefit

[Bret Busby <bret@clearsol.iinet.net.au>]

Sotiropoulos wrote:
> 
> 1/14/01 2:17:25 PM, Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com> wrote:
> 
> >If you in fact have a right, then you have a legal redress -- you can go
> >to court to enforce your right.  But you can't go to court to force the
> >market to provide you with something it doesn't want to give you.
> 
> Really?  What about the UDRP, doesn't it do exactly that?  Isn't there a  `legal' after market in domains then? or only for *some people*?

Ah. Now, that sounds slightly familiar. The UDRP. The UnDemocratic Rich
People. Yes, indeed. We have already heard (from my own experience, and,
the experience of others, how (un)fair the UDRP is. That's what is mean
by corporate law. Let the corporations control the law, the governments,
etc...

> 
> >If there are no restaurants in your town that serve pork, you can't sue
> >them to make them serve you bacon -- doesn't matter how much you like
> >bacon.
> 
> Well, at least we can both agree that bacon generally refes to pork Kent.  Can we agree on what a domain is?
> 

From what has already been said, I believe that that is the
$64,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 question. (I have allowed for inflation,
and, an unstable dollr, here :)

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Bret Busby

Armadale, West Australia

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