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Ah. My apologies. It's worse than I thought. That scraping sound you hear is the priests cracking the tombs of Akenaten and Nefertiti to bury Tut. Gold is where you find it. Past, present and future: the same old scam. len From: Miles Sabin [mailto:miles@m...] > The law will be made after the fact, Miles, > based on the "convenience" of using http/DNS > unique names to label the content. Someone > will notice that it's a "neat" idea. Maybe I didn't express myself clearly enough ... I'm not convinced that there's anything _new_ here: copyright and trademark law already exists and applies to any string, FQDNs included. So your vision of a horrific future is actually a vision of the present. A present, you'll note, in which trademark law is already hedged around with the qualification that common terms can't be trademarked, and that trademark owners can lose their rights if their marks pass into common usage (eg. [Hh]oover).
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