Domain Owners Lose Privacy
Well flaming DUH... of course we're going to lose privacy in every single way this bunch of lamers running the government can THINK of. And with our lovely friends in the Content Cartel, can anyone with a brain even THINK that they haven't been whispering in ears at NTIA and our wonderfully impartial Congress Critters?
So why are we losing privacy? Why is it SO important to find who owns a domain name? The most overwhelming reason is so that the Intellectual Property Cartel can serve them with cease and desist orders and try to take away their domain names. If a crime is committed, such as fraud using a website, it's a simple matter for prosecutors to subpoena the information from an ISP. However, for civil suits, the government has stepped in to make it much easier for the "big guys" and more difficult for the domain name holders, who now continue to be... [PsychoSensei's Pontifications]