As SOPA/PIPA Still Loom, Techies Already Creating Workarounds

[bcwar]

While there's still a fight over whether or not SOPA and PIPA will pass, it seems that people are already working up basic hacks to make the laws obsolete, should they pass. The folks behind MAFIAAFire, the browser plugin designed to route around ICE seizures has created a new offering, dreadfully named "The Pirate Bay Dancing," which will route around any DNS or IP blocking by using a rotating list of proxy servers. If you thought that ICE was upset about MAFIAAFire, you'd have to imagine they won't be at all pleased about this bit of code. Of course, SOPA does have an anti-circumvention clause in there, which would effectively make this plugin illegal. Of course, I can't see how they could possibly enforce something like that. Using a proxy in general is legal. How will they know if you're using a proxy to get around these particular blocks? Either way, it's yet another example of why the MPAA's insistence that DNS blocking remain in the bill shows (yet again) how technically clueless they are. DNS blocking is a total waste of time. It makes the internet less secure. It fragments key pieces of the internet. Breaks the basic agreement of how the internet is supposed to work... And all for what? To create a system that won't actually block much at all?

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Its always good to get in the first strike i always say. Thought it was starting to look alot like china soon enough

[Drew Wilson]

Why wait for others to make a workaround when 8 already exist?

[bcwar]

thanks drew ... i haven't seen this article since i was in the hospital for most of august. Though the article i posted has a new plugin from the Mafiaa-fire folks you may want to take a look at.

[res0r9lm]

I already cache dns locally but changing dns servers could slow you down if you don't. The Mafiaa-fire plugin should be a last resort.