The idea that just because you take a job away from the Federal Government that it just stops getting done is ridiculous, naive and plain stupid.
There are LOTS of NGOs that do WAY better than their federal counterparts at doing almost everything, they just dont get funding because 'the government already does that'.
Using starvation as an attack Libertarianism is a straw man argument of the worst variety.
This sounds like the perfect place for WikiMedia to offer a service where companies can pay an upkeep fee to make sure wiki keeps their pages up to date. This would be a great funding opportunity for Wikipedia and would create what is basically an editorial layer between PR people and the content on Wikipedia.
I think its a bit more nuanced than that. MS is the largest provider of DNS services to US corporate clients (anyone running Active Directory uses MS DNS somewhere).
Regardless of their views, personal or corporate, on DNS blocking (or anything of that nature, redirection, signing etc) their customers MUST be confident that they will always be compliant of US law while using MS DNS products.
Piracy was originally defined as an aggressive attack against a shipping lane.
Since the internet is the 'shipping lane' of the 21st century, and PIPA/SOPA attack its foundation, then both PIPA and SOPA would technically be acts of piracy.
UGH, thats because you dont understand DNS, hes not being actually serious but commenting on how stupid the people suggesting these ideas are. The admin denial command is not used like that in the slightest, its used to breakup requests to prevent denial of service attacks when requesting big lists from the DNS server, not to permanently prevent access to a domain.
If you understood any of that you would be anti-SOPA/PIPA, and thats the problem.
It goes worse than that. The only way to actually do it is to NAT the entire USA. People dont understand that you can just use a DNS server in another country unless you actively re-routing DNS requests to government servers.
The technical realities of implementing a system like this is automatically freedom killing because its so easy to bypass without a single tool that the only way to ensure compliance is to intercept every DNS request in the USA.
Also, once the requests have left the safe confines of a DNSSEC backbone, nothing at all will stop people from redirecting the redirections.
The institutions in general didn't profit, a few did, a few went bust. The truly sickening thing is how the people involved profited directly with the bonus incentive culture. Even while they were making decisions clearly not in the best interests of their companies they were raking in huge bonuses based on the volume of trades they performed, no matter how detrimental.
"For example, the court rejects all of 20-20's arguments about Real View's "saved development" costs as speculative."
Does this mean that 20/20 stood up in court and claimed that it was cheaper to deploy the pirated version than the legal version, even above and beyond the cost of the licenses? That's a crazy argument to put voice to as a representative of a software company. No wonder they are getting killed in the market and suing...
And its so awful! But not really, because right now they are just pressuring registrars, which is bad but not technically problematic. This would require literally changing how the worldwide DNS system operates, or would require the ENTIRE US backing itself behind NAT firewalls to take itself out of the global internet, like China. Think of how awesome that would be for the US economy....
Re: Re: @blaktron: You've already been deprecated by Castro.
Listen, you straight up dont understand DNS. The domain name system does not update from a single source, it updates from multiple concurrent sources in order to preserve authenticity. These kind of laws would require going back to single-source DNS (ICANN) and that was easy to intercept or pollute in order to ACTUALLY steal. Dan Kaminsky famously polluted world-wide DNS and took over a major website from an MS boardroom with a laptop.
So no, you shouldnt have a say in what happens with DNS, and neither should congress or the senate. It doesnt belong to the united states.
A someone who is involved in running DNS for 2 Class B Public networks, not located in the states, the only possible way this wouldnt break the internet is if I, as well as every other DNS manager outside the US, also follows US law.
PIPA/SOPA not only make DNSSEC impossible, since it requires a trusted network of entities around the globe to coordinate DNS replication, it BREAKS THE DOMAIN SYSTEM AS IT CURRENTLY EXISTS. This cannot be understated. China has to exist in a completely translated network environment for their Great Firewall to even work, and if the US were to back themselves out the global internet in order to implement theirs, it would be extremely harmful to the world at large.
Please, as someone outside of the US who would be GREATLY impacted by these laws, please stop them from going into place. I'm not sure if PIPA/SOPA would be worse for you or for me, but at that level of damage does it really matter?
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There are LOTS of NGOs that do WAY better than their federal counterparts at doing almost everything, they just dont get funding because 'the government already does that'.
Using starvation as an attack Libertarianism is a straw man argument of the worst variety.
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Love the name btw, played WoW a while back with a Nastybutler
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Market opportunity
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Regardless of their views, personal or corporate, on DNS blocking (or anything of that nature, redirection, signing etc) their customers MUST be confident that they will always be compliant of US law while using MS DNS products.
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Since the internet is the 'shipping lane' of the 21st century, and PIPA/SOPA attack its foundation, then both PIPA and SOPA would technically be acts of piracy.
Blows your mind doesnt it?
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Seems fair.
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If you understood any of that you would be anti-SOPA/PIPA, and thats the problem.
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Hes technically correct, yet displaying a stunning level of ignorance at the same time.
Please AC, I wont interfere with your finger painting, you dont interfere with my network implementations.
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The technical realities of implementing a system like this is automatically freedom killing because its so easy to bypass without a single tool that the only way to ensure compliance is to intercept every DNS request in the USA.
Also, once the requests have left the safe confines of a DNSSEC backbone, nothing at all will stop people from redirecting the redirections.
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Does this mean that 20/20 stood up in court and claimed that it was cheaper to deploy the pirated version than the legal version, even above and beyond the cost of the licenses? That's a crazy argument to put voice to as a representative of a software company. No wonder they are getting killed in the market and suing...
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Re: Re: @blaktron: You've already been deprecated by Castro.
So no, you shouldnt have a say in what happens with DNS, and neither should congress or the senate. It doesnt belong to the united states.
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PIPA/SOPA not only make DNSSEC impossible, since it requires a trusted network of entities around the globe to coordinate DNS replication, it BREAKS THE DOMAIN SYSTEM AS IT CURRENTLY EXISTS. This cannot be understated. China has to exist in a completely translated network environment for their Great Firewall to even work, and if the US were to back themselves out the global internet in order to implement theirs, it would be extremely harmful to the world at large.
Please, as someone outside of the US who would be GREATLY impacted by these laws, please stop them from going into place. I'm not sure if PIPA/SOPA would be worse for you or for me, but at that level of damage does it really matter?
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