Worldwide DNS Providers May Be Forced to Block Internet Piracy Websites

[Ice Tea]

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.p...forced-to-block-internet-piracy-websites.html

In a possible sign of things to come, Sony has won a key court case in Germany that could force Domain Name Service (DNS) providers, such as Quad9 and eventually others too (Google Public DNS, OpenDNS, Cloudflare etc.), to block access to a website due to internet copyright infringement (piracy).

Not that this news will bother law abiding OCUK users.

 

[dlockers]

ISPs pretty much do this anyway, don't they?

It is a shame it is only limited to copyright infringement websites and not something that really needs blocking e.g. parler, twitter, dailymail

 

[Ice Tea]

ISPs pretty much do this anyway, don't they?

People use VPN's and the story says that these could also be effected.

 

[Zefan]

parler, twitter, dailymail

 

[ci_newman]

Oh no, as if it's not easy enough to bypass a DNS block...

 

[Yaayuh!]

Yeah, sure... I can't imagine this will affect Tor.

 

[Nasher]

Just make your own DNS server

Or you can bypass DNS completely by editing your hosts file.

They say this is to protect "rights holders", but it will quickly move on to them trying to claim ownership of and try to block all sorts of stuff they have no right to. Like they already do on youtube etc. When they don't like someone commenting negatively on their products they abuse the system to try and get stuff taken down or try to grab a user's ad revenue. It's another step towards a corrupt corporate controlled internet.

 

[V F]

The story is from June 21st, why now is why I'm curious...

 

[lurkio]

start with the "bad" DNS entries such as piracy , couple of years later we are at blocking political sites that criticise governments

 

[theone8181]

start with the "bad" DNS entries such as piracy , couple of years later we are at blocking political sites that criticise governments

Couple of years after that you get china.

 

[Feek]

Couple of years after that you get china.

Careful, we're getting dangerously close to Godwin's law

 

[dlockers]

We get far too much freedom on the internet anyway. I'm pushing for an approved whitelist versus a blacklist that is maintained. This way we can only see positively approved content that our supreme leader has allowed.

 

[V F]

We get far too much freedom on the internet anyway. I'm pushing for an approved whitelist versus a blacklist that is maintained. This way we can only see positively approved content that our supreme leader has allowed.

 

[GGizmo]

The copyright laws need updating rather than everything changing just for them. Geo-locking should be banned.

The only time I agree with copyright laws is if the option to buy something legally is there yet people choose to pirate it.

Websites will either just get another address or they will move on to the Tor network and then the whole dns thought becomes redundant.

 

[StriderX]

Well it's a pointless act for the most part, but the biggest issue is that more people will delve into darker parts of the internet where they potentially get sucked into all sorts of nasty ****.

 

[dlockers]

Well it's a pointless act for the most part, but the biggest issue is that more people will delve into darker parts of the internet where they potentially get sucked into all sorts of nasty ****.

Piracy is a gateway drug for necrophilia?

 

[touch]

Piracy is a gateway drug for necrophilia?

You wouldn't download a corpse.

 

[Nasher]

Or 3D print drugs

 

[theone8181]

Or 3D print drugs

Pla is plant based. Could make cannabis reels .

 

[dlockers]

You wouldn't download a corpse.

Is it racist if I only have appetite for a white corpse?