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US seizes filesharing domains – p2p advocates consider new distributed routing

1 points| CulturalNgineer | 15 years ago |blog.p2pfoundation.net | reply

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[+] CulturalNgineer|15 years ago|reply
There are points worth considering on both sides regarding file sharing and copyright.

However this censorship action is being taken in the name of 'homeland security'... I find this a very disturbing trend and wonder how this community feels about that.

[+] EGreg|15 years ago|reply
Watch them start banning ISPs then, or taxing their upstream links

Still, distributed DNS is great -- but we would then have to trust certificate authorities that grant certificates for a certain period of time. If the certificates never expired, then domain ownership would be forever. If they did expire, then the government could forbid a certificate issuing authority to reissue a certificate, but the effect would be much sower than banning dns.