Pirates set up domain seizure workaround
Found on Domain Incite on Tuesday, 11 October 2011
The site encourages internet users to reconfigure their computers to use BlockAid’s DNS servers. That way, if a domain name used by a piracy web site is seized by law enforcement, BlockAid will be able to direct surfers to the original owner’s IP address more or less transparently.
In May, DNS experts including Paul Vixie, Dan Kaminsky and now-ICANN chair Steve Crocker said that the Protect-IP Act in the US would persuade many users to switch to offshore DNS servers.
Every tech would have told the politicians that this would happen, but those politicians seem to listen only to lobbyists from the media empire. Unless this form of censorship is stopped, we're heading for a little turbulent times until everybody moved over to a decentralized DNS system with no central authority where only the domain owner alone can change the DNS records, no matter if a government likes it or not.