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It's all over SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, Kaspersky doesn't like a lot of aspects of SOPA, understandably so. "Eugene Kaspersky describes SOPA as "vinyl-era legislation trying to manage the industry that requires a different approach".
SOPA sets out to block domains and web sites at the network level to prevent the illegal distribution of copyrighted material. Because the operators usually cannot be held directly responsible or accountable for the sites, the law includes the ability for the court to force providers to block access to the sites in question at the DNS level. Search engines would also be required to erase references to such sites from their indexes.
Even Microsoft is, according to US media sources, believed to be quietly opposed to SOPA, but it has yet to join the ranks of companies campaigning against the act, such as AOL, eBay, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yahoo, Zynga and Mozilla. Critics say SOPA would force ISPs and content providers into far-reaching obligations to inspect and monitor their customers." (emphasis mine)
SOPA is really bad news, giving Congress the idea that they own the internet, not that with DNS and the ability to route around damage that the U.S. wants to impose upon it. It's going to become a cat and mouse game where people hosting possibly infringing content can easily dodge DHS enforcement which will always be slower to react. In fact, there are add-ins for Firefox that will dodge DHS blocks.
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Kaspersky-leaves-Business-Software-Alliance-1390879.html
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/038246/kaspersky-quits-bsa-over-sopa-support
SOPA sets out to block domains and web sites at the network level to prevent the illegal distribution of copyrighted material. Because the operators usually cannot be held directly responsible or accountable for the sites, the law includes the ability for the court to force providers to block access to the sites in question at the DNS level. Search engines would also be required to erase references to such sites from their indexes.
Even Microsoft is, according to US media sources, believed to be quietly opposed to SOPA, but it has yet to join the ranks of companies campaigning against the act, such as AOL, eBay, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yahoo, Zynga and Mozilla. Critics say SOPA would force ISPs and content providers into far-reaching obligations to inspect and monitor their customers." (emphasis mine)
SOPA is really bad news, giving Congress the idea that they own the internet, not that with DNS and the ability to route around damage that the U.S. wants to impose upon it. It's going to become a cat and mouse game where people hosting possibly infringing content can easily dodge DHS enforcement which will always be slower to react. In fact, there are add-ins for Firefox that will dodge DHS blocks.
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Kaspersky-leaves-Business-Software-Alliance-1390879.html
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/038246/kaspersky-quits-bsa-over-sopa-support
