Senator Wyden to Filibuster Internet Bills if Passed

[Humerox]

Sign up to have your name read during the filibuster.

They will give the government and corporations new powers to block Americans' access to sites that are accused of copyright infringement...

Stop Censorship (http://stopcensorship.org/)

The government plans to redirect the DNS resolution to blocked sites. Blockaid (http://blockaid.me/) will be a workaround. Before it's illegal for me to even talk about it - which it will be if this crazy crap ever passes - the direct IP for Blockaid is 46.246.119.139

Better get the direct IP for Eqemu and Project99 while you're at it.

[Hasbinbad]

Humerox (or anyone else who is smart), pretend that I am three years old and explain what Blockaid is, how it works, how to use it to accomplish its purpose, why getting direct IPs is important, and how to get direct IPs for domains which are at risk.

I get the basic idea, and I'm sure I could figure it out, but there are probably a lot of people who may read this that would seriously benefit from an intelligent instructional (me).

[Humerox]

This is what DNS is:

The Domain Name System assigns servers that take a "name" like google.com, and translate it into machine-speak (actual IP) because names are easier for us to remember than a long list of numbers. What you type in your address bar is delivered to a DNS server which turns it into numbers, and then sends you to your destination. (The DNS server has a "directory" that holds all the names and matches them to a number.)

The government will do this:

When I.C.E. (the body responsible for 'seizing' domains in US) takes control of a domain, they change the translation the DNS server makes, and it sends you somewhere else...like their big splash page (http://lubbockonline.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/superphoto/photos/blogs/4272/IPRC_Seized_2010_11.jpg).

Blockaid does this:

There are a number of public DNS services available, such as those offered by Google and OpenDNS, but they won't help if a domain has been/is seized. BlockAid will. They will send you where you're supposed to go instead of where the government wants to send you.

What the government will do is just redirect you...they can't actually seize sites without a court order...that will hold true even if all this junk eventually passes, especially if the sites aren't in the US. (They will be able to redirect non-US sites). Under the way the laws are written, it will be illegal to even talk about the IP addresses of the blocked sites, and search engines will be forced to take away any reference to them. At the moment, you can get IP addresses at sites like this (http://www.track-ip.com/whois). I noticed it wasn't right for Project 1999 though...so I dunno.

EqEmu is: 67.23.190.71

You can type those numbers in your addy bar just like a name, and viola!



Good? :D

[Hasbinbad]

No lol. I can read the technogeek on the website just fine. I didn't need you to retype it. :P

[Aadill]

basically if this shit passes we'll all be like it was in Hackers connecting directly to IP addresses for their services instead of typing in a website url.


















And banging young Angelina Jolie

[Diggles]

I CAN SPEAK IP

[inyane]

you want to go to www.warez.com
your computer sends a request to your DNS server, asks where www.warez.com is.
DNS server says, oh, that's at 192.168.1.1
your computer goes to 192.168.1.1

government decides that site is illegal. now your DNS server will respond to your request by telling you the site is at 192.168.200.200
That IP is a government webserver, giving you a nice message saying the domain is illegal.

So, instead, you change your DNS servers to blockaid. Now when you request www.warez.com, it tells you the IP is 192.168.1.1

I would guess blockaid is just an offshore DNS server. You obviously have to have a certain amount of trust in them, as they can start redirecting you to whatever they want.

fairly simplified :)

[Humerox]

No lol. I can read the technogeek on the website just fine. I didn't need you to retype it. :P

changed it a bit :P

[bled12345]

LOLz at america. Isn't there another country that censors the internet too? China?


It's a slippery slope....

first piratebay.org gets censored, and next thing you know sites like occupywallstreet and other anti government sites conveniantly get shut down too.

[Uthgaard]

http://books.google.com/books?id=T6DuBeBi3doC&pg=PA86&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

If you have any doubts about where America is headed, the parallels of history are hard not to notice.

[Humerox]

LOLz at america. Isn't there another country that censors the internet too? China?

Don't forget Australia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Australia)...

the country that's making Men at Work pay 5% royalties (http://www.popeater.com/2010/07/06/men-at-work-down-under-kookaburra-royalties/) retroactively to the new copyright owners of Kookaburra for using 4 freaking notes of the song in Down Under.

All this shit ties into the fascism that is threatening everybody.