DeSopa: a Firefox addon to easily bypass SOPA DNS blocking

Post by dangrossman » Wed, Dec 21, 2011, 6:43 PM UTC

tomjen3 wrote: post #57

dangrossman wrote: post #42

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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…

If you cut of the other ways to get money then Bitcoin is the solution today (or in a few months when it is properly integrated with the merchant software).

Post by vidarh » Fri, Dec 23, 2011, 2:56 PM UTC

ojbyrne wrote: post #62

vidarh wrote: post #50

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In which case I'm sure "someone" will post it uuencoded to every forum operated by any subsidiary of companies supporting SOPA. Or something to that effect. They'll have fun moderating every scrap of user generated content they want to make use of or shut all their forums down, and still, circumvention tools will be everywhere. If this passes, not only will they find people will create tons of tools to make circumven…

Except that there's already laws that say building circumvention devices is a felony. And with that other bill, where the US can arrest anyone, anywhere, anytime, it's not good enough to not be American.