Dave Farber comments on Re: Major Labels v. Backbones

Mon Aug 19 19:02:34 UTC 2002

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Tim Thorne wrote:

> I'm not even sure if shutting listen4ever down is on the RIAA agenda.
> Wouldn't the easiest course of action be to file suit against Verisign
> and have their DNS nuked?

that would be the logical approach.  or they could get an order against
the usg and block it at A.root-servers.  no need to bring in a private
company when the usg root can block all queries to it.

the best approach may be to hit the usg dept of commerce with the order -
they control the root.  it maybe difficult for verisign as the registrar
for listen4ever.com is MELBOURNE IT, so the US government maybe the fast
track method to square this.

regards
joe baptista