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Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS
schwit1 sends this report from The Verge:
Most anti-piracy tools take one of two paths: they either target the server that's sharing the files (pulling videos off YouTube or taking down sites like The Pirate Bay) or they make it harder to find (delisting offshore sites that share infringing content). But leaked documents reveal a frightening line of attack that's currently being considered by the MPAA: What if you simply erased any record that the site was there in the first place? To do that, the MPAA's lawyers would target the Domain Name System that directs traffic across the internet.
The tactic was first proposed as part of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in 2011, but three years after the law failed in Congress, the MPAA has been looking for legal justification for the practice in existing law and working with ISPs like Comcast to examine how a system might work technically. If a takedown notice could blacklist a site from every available DNS provider, the URL would be effectively erased from the internet. No one's ever tried to issue a takedown notice like that, but this latest memo suggests the MPAA is looking into it as a potentially powerful new tool in the fight against piracy.
The tactic was first proposed as part of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in 2011, but three years after the law failed in Congress, the MPAA has been looking for legal justification for the practice in existing law and working with ISPs like Comcast to examine how a system might work technically. If a takedown notice could blacklist a site from every available DNS provider, the URL would be effectively erased from the internet. No one's ever tried to issue a takedown notice like that, but this latest memo suggests the MPAA is looking into it as a potentially powerful new tool in the fight against piracy.
No one's ever tried to issue a takedown notice like that...
Really?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
They haven't?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
Tried this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
Because, the last I checked...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
It was happening
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
all the time...
I guess they don't know history so well. AlterNIC could easily return under such a scenario.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Funny, Microsoft has actually had a P2P DNS system for several years: PNRP.
FTFY.
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
INTERconnected NETworks, not international - though it's been that too, since fairly early
The I,K, and M root servers are outside the US and are controlled by entities which the US can't directly bully into doing their bidding.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.