<div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Will Sopa / Acta / ... make Onion Routing Illegal ?</div><div><br></div><a href="http://thehackernews.com/2011/12/tor-anonymity-will-become-illegal-with.html">http://thehackernews.com/2011/12/tor-anonymity-will-become-illegal-with.html</a><div>
<br></div><div>///</div><div><br></div><div>My ISP ( internet service provider , here in Belgium ) already blocked access to certain sites.<div><br></div><div>When asking the ISP - via email - about such blockage via email,</div>
<div>telling them that a recent european court of justice decision </div><div>limits a national court in the possibility to force an ISP to censor its customers in the name of copyright</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/eu-court-of-justice-censorship-in-name-of-copyright-violates-fundamental-rights">http://www.laquadrature.net/en/eu-court-of-justice-censorship-in-name-of-copyright-violates-fundamental-rights</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>my ISP replied saying that they block it "voluntarily", in preparation of what may come.</div><div><br></div><div>I also noticed another site blocked via my ISP</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.artofhosting.org/home/">http://www.artofhosting.org/home/</a> ( harvesting conversations - direct democracy practices ? )</div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;line-height:17px"><b><i><br></i></b></span></font></div><div>and reported it to my ISP - I recently noticed they unblocked it.</div>
<div>( Note : I found out the site was blocked to me as I use TOR to route around it, using another IP )</div><div><br></div><div>I also asked my ISP for a complete list of censored sites - they did not reply to this question.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Michel Bauwens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
hi franco,<br><br>can you cover this in blog? important, see <a href="http://falkvinge.net/2011/12/01/mafiaafire-just-killed-all-current-and-future-copyright-industry-censorship/" target="_blank">http://falkvinge.net/2011/12/01/mafiaafire-just-killed-all-current-and-future-copyright-industry-censorship/</a><br>
<br><p>In the hypothetical extreme case that some United States goon agency
would seize the domain <em><a href="http://thepiratebay.org" target="_blank">thepiratebay.org</a></em> 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 “<a href="http://thepiratebay.org" target="_blank">thepiratebay.org</a>” in the address
bar as usual (given that you also have the first MafiaaFire plugin).</p>
<p>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.</p>
<strong>This kills the copyright industry’s strategy that the ISPs
are “critical gatekeepers” right dead in the water.</strong> <br clear="all"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br>
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