[P2P-F] mafiaafire routs around filesharing censorshop

Mon Dec 26 14:24:23 CET 2011

hi franco,

can you cover this in blog? important, see
http://falkvinge.net/2011/12/01/mafiaafire-just-killed-all-current-and-future-copyright-industry-censorship/

In the hypothetical extreme case that some United States goon agency would
seize the domain *thepiratebay.org* entirely, most ISPs also lying about
its previous DNS records and giving you a “page censored” sign, and even
having blocked it at the IP level (a technique never used), you would still
just type “thepiratebay.org” in the address bar as usual (given that you
also have the first MafiaaFire plugin).

The story on TorrentFreak goes into detail on how this is accomplished
using a list of thousands and thousands of proxies, circumventing
censorship. Essentially, what the released plugin does is to turn your
computer into a node in a mesh network that finds the shortest unblocked
route to the target you request.
*This kills the copyright industry’s strategy that the ISPs are “critical
gatekeepers” right dead in the water.*

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