Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order
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Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order
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Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order
#2quad9 should be blocking certain IPs in germany as well.
such as the German branch of Sony Music.
Sony uploads pirate torrents to the web, thus must be blocked.
Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order
#3The harder Sony screams, the better things are going in general. This effort was pathetic and ineffective, just like every attempt Sony has made to combat piracy. If only they spent all that effort and money improving the user experience when accessing their products instead of something doomed to failure.
Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order
#4This is feels like the Barbara Streisand Effect in action.
I had never heard about this Canna Power piracy website before. Probably a lot of other people haven’t either. But now, when Sony and their friends made this DNS block happen, media coverage has made more of us hear about the Canna Power piracy website.
Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order
#5Firefox should natively support OpenNIC and other alternative DNS providers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
This will help Mozilla gain marketshare by being the goto browser for anyone wanting to access non-mainstream sites.
But I admit, that also makes firefox hostile to corporate environments. If only firefox obeyed windows system/gpo/registry settings like chrome. I have never seen a non-tech company even permit firefox in their IT policy for these and other reasons anyways.
If they really are for privacy for individuals, this is the way!
It would also be ideal if alternative root systems supported DoH well. But that's only half the problem, discovering a list or resolvers is a big pain because those can also be blocked.
My suggestion is for willing sites to frequently update their SRV records with new/current list of authoritative root IPs that support DoH. Supporting mainstream sites can also do that, so when you visit these sites you have the latest root list, and if that list is dynamic enough (have static root IPs but make them reachable with IPs that change all the time) blocking the system becomes a whack-a-mole and the difficulty is set by network size and how many new root resolver's can be added (DHT over https might help too).
Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order
#6Question: why are torrent sites not generally run as a Tor hidden-site backend (that can therefore be accessed through any existing Tor public-web gateway, rather than needing to set up its own proxies) plus an IPFS-hosted SPA frontend (that can therefore rely on any IPFS web gateway, and can then point as many arbitrary human-readable DNSLink names at that IPFS CID as it wishes)?
Is it just because the web piracy community predates these technologies?
Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order
#7Question: why are torrent sites not generally run as a Tor hidden-site backend (that can therefore be accessed through any existing Tor public-web gateway, rather than needing to set up its own proxies) plus an IPFS-hosted SPA frontend (that can therefore rely on any IPFS web gateway, and can then point as many arbitrary human-readable DNSLink names at that IPFS CID as it wishes)? Is it just because the web piracy co…
I'm pretty sure sure pirate-bay is an onion site exposed via a cloudflare gateway. You can use the onion service directly (and presumably through whichever gateway you want).
Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order
#8This is feels like the Barbara Streisand Effect in action. I had never heard about this Canna Power piracy website before. Probably a lot of other people haven’t either. But now, when Sony and their friends made this DNS block happen, media coverage has made more of us hear about the Canna Power piracy website.
I have been sailing the dark waters for everything - movies, tv shows, books, games, music, etc - since before the new millennium and I can tell you I've never heard of Canna Power until today. I usually get my content successfully off of the larger public torrent sites, so I guess there's no need, but it's good to have another bookmark in my arsenal! Definitely the Streisand Effect here.
Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order
#9Question: why are torrent sites not generally run as a Tor hidden-site backend (that can therefore be accessed through any existing Tor public-web gateway, rather than needing to set up its own proxies) plus an IPFS-hosted SPA frontend (that can therefore rely on any IPFS web gateway, and can then point as many arbitrary human-readable DNSLink names at that IPFS CID as it wishes)? Is it just because the web piracy co…
I'm pretty sure sure pirate-bay is an onion site exposed via a cloudflare gateway. You can use the onion service directly (and presumably through whichever gateway you want).
Cloudflare can work over TOR? I'm only familiar with the services they offer opening a tunnel across regular internet.
Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order
#10Question: why are torrent sites not generally run as a Tor hidden-site backend (that can therefore be accessed through any existing Tor public-web gateway, rather than needing to set up its own proxies) plus an IPFS-hosted SPA frontend (that can therefore rely on any IPFS web gateway, and can then point as many arbitrary human-readable DNSLink names at that IPFS CID as it wishes)? Is it just because the web piracy co…
To be more accessible and because they don't have to.