[132449] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Blocking International DNS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Wed Nov 24 18:34:13 2010
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
In-Reply-To: <E40AB346-DB91-413D-8FF5-A194655565A5@americafree.tv>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:34:02 -0500
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Nov 19, 2010, at 3:45 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> It seems that the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act =
(COICA) passed through the Senate Judiciary Committee=20
> with a unanimous (!) vote :
COICA appears to be dead for this year.
Ron Wyden (D Oregon) has put a hold on COICA, basically a threat of a =
Filibuster. This will probably kill it for now, as time is running out =
in this lame duck session. If this holds, the bill would have to start =
from scratch next year. =20
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http://www.unitethecows.com/content/321-coica-halted-following-controversy=
.html=20
Regards
Marshall
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> =
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/11/pirate-slaying-censorship-=
bill-gets-unanimous-support.ars
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> http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=3Ds111-3804
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> I claim operational content for this as, on the basis of court orders, =
i..e. a
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> "temporary restraining order, a preliminary injunction, or an =
injunction against the domain name used by an Internet site dedicated to =
infringing activities"
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> it requires that, for foreign domain names,
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> "(i) a service provider, as that term is defined in section 512(k)(1) =
of title 17, United States Code, or other operator of a domain name =
system server shall take reasonable steps that will prevent a domain =
name from resolving to that domain name=92s Internet protocol address;"
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> This expedited DNS cutoff is only available for copyright violations, =
not for other illegalities.=20
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> Whether this has any chance of actually passing through this Lame Duck =
Congress remains to be seen, but my personal reading is that that is not =
likely.=20
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> Regards
> Marshall
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