European Parliament warns of global dangers of US domain revocation proposals
Found on European Digital Rights on Thursday, 17 November 2011
The European Parliament today adopted, by a large majority, a resolution on the upcoming EU/US summit stressing “the need to protect the integrity of the global internet and freedom of communication by refraining from unilateral measures to revoke IP addresses or domain names.”
This situation is now turning critical, with legislative proposals such as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act claiming worldwide jurisdiction for domain names and IP addresses. The definitions in SOPA are so broad that, ultimately, it could be interpreted in a way that would mean that no online resource in the global Internet would be outside US jurisdiction.
SOPA/ProtectIP are just more of a reason to get the control away from a single country and hand it over to a global insitution which is not affected by local laws. For now, one option is to move away from US controlled TLD's.