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Ron Jackson's latest Lowdown post announces that the Electronic Frontier Foundation has taken a stand against the proposed Anti-Phishing Consumer Protection Act of 2008. Jackson quotes EFF Staff Attorney Corynne McSherry, who said: "The bill starts off relatively inoffensively by prohibiting the use of false information to solicit identifying data from a computer (this was already illegal, but we’ll let that go for now). But then it goes on to forbid the use of brand names in domain names, and the use of another’s domain name in emails, on websites, or in web ads. This prohibition is unnecessary: if the use of a brand name in a domain name is confusing, it is already actionable under trademark law. And it is dangerous because, unlike current federal trademark law, the APCPA does little to protect noncommercial and comparative advertising uses of trademarks." Click here to read the full article. Source : DNJournal – With Ron Jackson’s Permission – March 12, 2008