[FYI] Seven years jail, $150,000 fine if you don’t tell the world your email and home address

["Axel H Horns" <axel.h.horns@gmx.net>]

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/35376.html>

Seven years jail, $150,000 fine if you don’t tell the world your 
email and home address   

By Kieren McCarthy   

Posted: 05/02/2004 at 22:13 GMT  

If you don’t tell the world your email, home address and telephone 
number you could face a seven-year jail sentence and a $150,000 fine 
under new legislation that the US Congress is trying to push past 
today.  

Senator Lamar Smith of Texas - chairman of the Courts, the Internet 
and Intellectual Property Subcommittee of the House Judiciary 
Committee - yesterday produced from nowhere extensions to the 1946 
Trademark Act that would make giving false contact information for a 
domain name a civil and criminal offence.  

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