> >I'll say it for the fourth time (I've been counting): My goal is NOT to
> >recover the stolen money, but to shut off any stolen domains and make
> >them worthless in order to discourage the person from bothering to steal
> >the NEXT TIME.
>
>
> This falsely assumes, as many laws do unfortunately, that you can "teach a
> lesson" to criminals by example. You can't, otherwise with the 1,000,000s
> of laws and statutes in this country, and the 2 million humans in prison in
> the USA, if this logic model were even remotely true, there would be little
> or no crime in society today. Criminals don't "learn" nor do they take head
> of "messages", that's why they are criminals.
>
This is *exactly* why it is not enough to rely on suing the end-user, or
sending it to a collections agency.
Your analogy fails, because most criminals would not commit the crimes if
they knew 100% they would get caught. If OpenSRS allows resellers to shut
off access, there is a 100% chance that the criminals will get 0 benefit
from this. If we keep the things the way they are, where we rely on
courts and collection agencies, the chance the criminal will get away with
it is >0.
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