A bill is introduced to totally and absolutely shut down pirate sites. No, I mean it!

[thewayne]

They have a much more clever plan than simply seizing the domain name, which only works for .com and a couple others. Those crafty pirates simply registered a non-US domain and they were back in business!

No, this time they're going to pass a law with which they can order ISP's to remove DNS resolution for said sites!

W00t! Total win!

I guess the morons have never heard that DNS resolves a name to a number, and that web sites can be accessed by directly entering the IP address. Of course, that becomes somewhat more complicated under IPv6.

And if they try to block the IP address, you can use a foreign proxy service to get at the site.

So how long before a Firefox add-on buffers the IP address?

Morons.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/protect-act/

Comments

[silveradept]

Well, for the grand majority of people, that would stop them. That said, how hard is it to change your DNS lookup to servers that aren't your ISP? I'm sure someone will maintain servers that can be used in such a manner. Or the web browsers can be programmed to fail over to a new set of DNS servers if the first set doesn't resolve, right?

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Someone pointed out that there's nothing locking you in to using your ISP's DNS servers, just go ahead and point your system config to a foreign DNS provider. It isn't difficult to change your DNS record, I've done it a few times. It's unknown how long the change takes to propagate throughout the system, but it's pretty fast.

[silveradept]

So, if people start publishing how to change your DNS to other servers, will the government start demanding they also not have DNS resolution, too?