Re: [IFWP] Re: DOJ investigating NSI

[Martin B. Schwimmer]

One of NSI's vendors wrote:
> 
> NSI's database isn't significantly different than
> any other company's customer database.
> 

Significant differences include:

1) primary function of list is public directory

2) identity of customers is not kept confidential and can easily be
discerned by all (hint - does their domain name end in a .com, .net or
.org? then they are a customer!!)

3) US govt has contractual rights to databased

Now we await NSI's answer to my request that it explain a statement made to
the Washington Post that appears to be wrong on its face - in that data,
specifically data such as that found in the whois database, is not
intellectual property, per the Feist decision.