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8 Ways To Circumvent the PROTECT-IP Act
Dangerous_Minds writes "One of the things that the PROTECT-IP act is said to do is make DNS servers censor websites that have been accused of copyright infringement. Drew Wilson of ZeroPaid decided to look in to how many ways he could come up with that would circumvent such censorship. He found 8 ways to circumvent such censorship. The article includes pros and cons and links to guides on how to carry out these methods. The methods are: using a VPN service, using your HOSTs file, using TOR, using freely available DNS lookup tools, changing your DNS server to a non-US server, using command prompt, using Foxy Proxy, and using MAFIAAFire. If anything, the list raises serious doubts that the PROTECT IP Act will even put a dent on copyright infringement online."
They haven't voted it in yet. It's on hold in the Senate.
Write your congresscritters (one rep, two senators). Include Senator Wyden, who placed the hold on it. Good old fashioned snail-mail. They pay more attention to that than to emails or phone calls. In your own words, tell them why it's a bad law and should not be passed. Be polite. Then tell them that you'll be paying special attention to their votes on the bill. Follow through on that - write another letter if and when they vote.
Huh? I read it with an Aussie accent.
Whatever accent you used, the vocabulary is entirely un-Aussie."Eat a bag of dicks"? Never heard that. "'mericans"? We'd say "yanks", or "septics" for a more vintage slang. "Mah"? In Strine, we say "me" for my. Basically, Australian vowels are shortened, the opposite to southern USA.
6. Using Command Prompt Quick Explanation: In Windows at least, one can simply open up command prompt (explained in tutorial) and simply type in “ping [insert domain name here]” and obtain a server IP address for later use.
The guy is a fucking cretin.
How do he think PING finds the address? It looks it up using the default DNS.
Sigs. We don't need no steenking sigs.