[IP] more on Following legal threat, VeriSign agrees to suspend Site Finder

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Delivered-To: dfarber+@ux13.sp.cs.cmu.edu
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 09:01:10 -0400
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
Subject: Re: [IP] Following legal threat, VeriSign agrees to suspend Site 
Finder
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>


On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 07:33:55PM -0400, Dave Farber wrote:
> '
> Following legal threat, VeriSign agrees to suspend Site Finder
>
> By Anick Jesdanun, The Associated Press Oct 3 2003 12:39PM
> The Internet's key traffic cop bowed to pressure Friday and agreed to
> suspend a new online search service [...]

Ah, but one press account after another parrots the Verisign party line
by describing this as "a service" rather than "an attack on the fundamental
infrastructure of the Internet by a greedy monopoly".  No doubt the
scumbags at Verisign are delighted that their language has been accepted,
and no doubt they'll be back -- soon -- with another try at this.

---Rsk

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