[P2P-F] mafiaafire routs around filesharing censorshop

Mon Dec 26 16:44:28 CET 2011

Will Sopa / Acta / ... make Onion Routing Illegal ?

http://thehackernews.com/2011/12/tor-anonymity-will-become-illegal-with.html

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My ISP ( internet service provider , here in Belgium ) already blocked
access to certain sites.

When asking the ISP - via email - about such blockage via email,
telling them that a recent european court of justice decision
limits a national court in the possibility to force an ISP to censor its
customers in the name of copyright

http://www.laquadrature.net/en/eu-court-of-justice-censorship-in-name-of-copyright-violates-fundamental-rights

my ISP replied saying that they block it "voluntarily", in preparation of
what may come.

I also noticed another site blocked via my ISP

http://www.artofhosting.org/home/ ( harvesting conversations - direct
democracy practices ? )
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and reported it to my ISP - I recently noticed they unblocked it.
( Note : I found out the site was blocked to me as I use TOR to route
around it, using another IP )

I also asked my ISP for a complete list of censored sites - they did not
reply to this question.

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Michel Bauwens <michel at p2pfoundation.net>wrote:

> 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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