Several concerns were raised about SOPA and PIPA when they were proposed, although the biggest of them was about using DNS blocking as a remedy against sites which were alleged that infringement was a primary purpose.
However, tons of technology experts point out that, all forms of DNS filtering or redirecting them would be claim to be a security nightmare and do nothing that would stop violation. One may have heard that, in this week the Syrian Electronic Army successfully took down nytimes.com by engaging in a bit of DNS hacking that is really nothing more than a DNS redirect.
Rob Pegoraro believes that, such is the same basic remedy that the MPAA required so badly with SOPA. In reality, during the negotiations over SOPA, this was the issue the MPAA rejected to shift over to DNS blocking/readdressing that was required to be in SOPA. He further added that, if in any way SOPA had become legalised, one would have likely seen the law battered to take down sites such as the Syrian Electronic Army that took down nytimes.com.
Pointing at the Disruptive Competition Project, Ali Sternburg claims that, this also shows just how ridiculously ineffective DNS blocking/readdressing would have been in SOPA, as it’s very easy to get around and most people did. If someone feels this to be familiar, conceivably it’s because Domain Name System (DNS) blocking was component of the original draft of SOPA.
DNS blocking was claimed to be a remedy to take entire allegedly terrible foreign websites down, still yesterday verified that people are able to navigate to sites through their IP address, even after the domain name servers are offline. This seems to be a reliable with a major critique of the DNS blocking during the SOPA debate, claiming it wouldn’t even work. Although, some SOPA supporters had disputed in response that, it would be a mistake to assume, as these network engineers have that the average Internet users has an above-average technical skills which are necessary to do this. But still, people managed to do it yesterday.
So it’s ineffective for blocking DNS, and is probably a dumb idea by the technologically illiterate folks at the MPAA to propose a form of DNS hacking as a kind of remedy to copyright intrusion and the NY Times redirect hack has just made it clearer.