Oops, guess I shoulda read Bob's link before spouting off, seems DOA?
Remember, violations carry time in Federal Prison. Up to five years.
Want to use that black market Craigslist, or put your ad in the SOPA sanctioned newspaper for a small fee?
It is not DOA, it is just taking a dirt nap.
They will resurrect it soon enough. Lamar Smith says it will be right back in February:
Stop Online Piracy Act Markup to Resume in February
Does this guy have any Internet experience at all Rgconner? With respect to the gentleman, the first thing that will happen is the rest of the world will use DNS servers that are not in US jurisdiction.
Yes, well, it is not that easy.
From wikipedia:
However, the root zone is controlled by the United States Department of Commerce who must approve all changes to the root zone file requested by ICANN. ICANN's bylaws assign authority over the operation of the root nameservers of the Domain Name System to the DNS Root Server System Advisory Committee.
I don't know how else to put it, but the internet runs on trust and the understanding that people will behave themselves, if only for their own good. Because, back to the analogy of giving grenades to the poo slinging monkeys, those same monkeys are now in a small room. One of them slings his grenade, it is a blender on frappe.
One entity, like the US, doing stupid #$%* like this will result in other countries firewalling us off to prevent the chaos of a split/poisoned DNS tree.
You won't be able to use offshore DNS, because the only way for them to not have wikipedia.org removed from the DNS as a measure of SOPA (and yes it is in there) would be to cut themselves off from the root owned and controlled by the US.
And, I assure you, your provider can and will intercept DNS requests and route them to a US based server or send them to /dev/null.
Try to use something like Tor to get around it and I am sure they will stop encrypted packets at the border...
