DeSopa: a Firefox addon to easily bypass SOPA DNS blocking

Post by dangrossman » Tue, Dec 20, 2011, 10:59 PM UTC

tomjen3 wrote: post #34

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The worst part of SOPA, in my opinion, is the ability for a rightsholder to ask any ad network or payment provider to stop doing business with any website merely by claiming the site's primary function is infringement... and the liability incentives the bill creates for doing so without a trial. We can route around DNS blocks to get to the sites, but what does that matter if the sites close themselves because their f…

Microtransactions in Bitcoin (or heck ads paid with bitcoin). You can't cut of bitcoin transactions because there is by its very definition no place to cut them of. If this is the case, we are only going to get that much closer to the end game.

Post by delimitted » Tue, Dec 20, 2011, 11:13 PM UTC

JakeSc wrote: post #41

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You can rename the extension to .zip and extract. If you have any problems, let me know via a comment or post a contact method and Ill send you the source. Its pretty simple. When on, it intercepts URLs, sends the base URL to three offshore DNS services via HTTP, makes a best effort to check that two of them are equivalent, caches the IP for the browser session, redirects to the equivalent URL using the IP, and subst…

Thanks for your work! The explanation on how the extension works was enlightening. Perhaps I missed it, but would you mind including the explanation on the download page?

Post by dangrossman » Tue, Dec 20, 2011, 11:15 PM UTC

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I have to say, as much as bitcoin is in a downfall, this actually makes a ton of sense. That was the initial goal of bitcoin, to create a de-centralized currency. As long as the BTC is a STABLE currency this works out well. Or short-term stable. It can become a medium of financial transfer: I buy 10 BTC, donate it, they claim 10 BTC, convert to cash. Done. It would be great if there was a tool to literally facilitate…

> HOWEVER THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE INTERNET IS AGAINST. This will prevent all sort of anti-fraud that is going on now. You will wind up bypassing years of innovation to create a black market. It will be detremental. Right now, in meatspace, I have both options: I can pay with cash and have little to no recourse or record, or I can pay with check or credit card and have a record and various fraud protection measures.…

Post by nextparadigms » Wed, Dec 21, 2011, 12:10 AM UTC

dangrossman wrote: post #42

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Microtransactions in Bitcoin (or heck ads paid with bitcoin). You can't cut of bitcoin transactions because there is by its very definition no place to cut them of. If this is the case, we are only going to get that much closer to the end game.

That might be a solution 5, 10 years down the line. What's the solution today? If you cut any site off from Google/DoubleClick, you've effectively prevented them from monetizing through advertising enough to reach top 100. That's not every site's business model, but there's certainly a class of sites we'd like to exist (of which YouTube is a prime example) that would not be able to exist without access to the US adve…

Post by vidarh » Wed, Dec 21, 2011, 12:53 AM UTC

ojbyrne wrote: post #38

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SOPA specifically (without actually naming it) calls out addons.mozilla.org for the whole mafiaafire thing -- so under SOPA, this add-on wouldn't be allowed to stay up. "[T]his version targets software developers and distributors as well. It allows the Attorney General (doing Hollywood or trademark holders' bidding) to go after more or less anyone who provides or offers a product or service that could be used to get…

Of course, with SOPA they won't just take the one addon down, but the entire domain.