Private Whois

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Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

I want to bring up very important point. The purpose of private WHOIS is NOT to protect the identity of someone running an illegal site.

Even if that Filipino webmaster had used private WHOIS, authorities would have still been able get his real information from his host or by contacting his domain registrar.

I don't think the guy did anything illegal in the jurisdiction of his host or registrar. He ran a forum, where people would post images and stories. Probably, a large part of the images were stolen off of other sites as on many other porn boards, but that was certainly not the point of the senator. It was a politically motivated action.

But I agree, of course it should not be used for anything illegal. I do know that private registrars do hand out info in case of fraud, copyright and trademark issues and when they see a danger of being involved in legal claims.