Electronic Frontier Foundation Slams MPAA, RIAA Interests in USTR Special 301 Report
The recent U.S. Trade Representative Special 301 report on “notorious” IP markets (see 1503060033) claimed that domain “registrars are required … to take action by locking or suspending domains when they receive a notice about one of their domains facilitating…
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illegal activity,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation said in a March 11 blog post (here). “This isn't true, and by claiming it is, USTR is here repeating the United States entertainment industry's current talking points,” notably those of the Motion Picture Association of America and Recording Industry Association of America, it said. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has an agreement with registrars that they should act when “notified of illegal activity,” including piracy and counterfeiting, USTR said. “On the same day as the Notorious Markets list was published, the RIAA wrote a letter to ICANN claiming that it is not ‘appropriate’ for registrars to deny any obligation to respond to their members' complaints,” EFF said. MPAA, RIAA and USTR didn’t comment.