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U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (23 children)

From the article...

Yet, despite an overseas focus, Americans won't be able to avoid the proposal's requirements, which covers CDNs, virtual private servers, proxies, and domain name resolution services, among others.

... and ...

The premise is relatively simple. By having a more rigorous sign-up procedure for platforms such as Amazon’s AWS, for example, the risk of malicious actors using U.S. cloud services to attack U.S. critical infrastructure, or undermine national security in other ways, can be reduced.

~Anti~ ~Commercial-AI~ ~license~ ~(CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0)~

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (11 children)

What is that link

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (10 children)

I assume that user is licencing their comments under creative commons

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No need to assume, you can see this on all of their comment history. They are claiming ownership of their words, or in the context, ownership of how they’ve arranged others words

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

eh, I could just pirate their words if I so chose & there'd be fuckall they could do about it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I want to see the first DMCA takedown for a comment "pirating" another user's comment.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I want to see the first DMCA takedown for a comment “pirating” another user’s comment.

-teft

This is mine now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Release the hounds. I mean lawyers.

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