Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, I found this http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/A1500/1327_I1.HTM My question, if this happened in Florida, would we indeed insist on knowing the names of our users ? Or would we say that our projects are not a forum?
Thanks, GerardM
I have no idea how they are going to enforce this law, as you are not even legally required to put correct addresses into contact information for top-level domain name registration. Indeed, I've seen it suggested on some forums that if you register a domain name that you should *not* put in correct information, and I've seen addresses like "Somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean" or "Utopia Plantia, Mars" as the address for the person listed as owning a domain regsitration. The reason for putting incorrect information is to avoid spamming (including junk snail mail) or having some terrorist drop a bomb at your home address.
If the domain registration doesn't have to be correct, how can you require user information to be correct? Or on what grounds can you supeona information? Send a sheriff to Mars to deliver a summons? There may be a paper trail with the domain registration agency in terms of who actually paid for the domain, but that would take some serious digging and require a search warrent as well.
None of this even addresses the legal knot of trying to see exactly what servers would be under New Jersey law. Even if this were U.S. Federal law instead, the legal issues would be a mess just to see if a server could even qualify for enforcement of this law.