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Originally Posted by VGeorgie
The *jurisdiction* is the United States. Like it or not, .com and many other TLDs belong to the US government. On top of that, the US government ultimately controls the assigned numbers system to all other TLDs. Like it or not, that's the way it currently is.
They'd have to appeal to ICANN, which is - wait for it! - a US corporation!
Yeah, sure. There's this Green Paper thingie and other agreements that supposedly even the playing field, but when it comes down to it, the US government holds a hand with five aces.
So whatever the US is going to do to protect revenue-generating industries it's going to do. Not that they'll do squat for adult - this is for the movie and music industries.
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if this were the way it works it would go against the icann agreement with the US government
http://www.domainnamenews.com/icann-...mmitments/6208
since that agreement was only made to avoid having the UN claim ownership of icann and create a country independent ruling body i doubt very much the US government would make such an arguement
especially when the basis for access shifting as a fair use has been established under some foreign jurisdictions.