Stay Anonymous. Could CISPA Be the Next SOPA? A bill introduced to the House of Representatives late last year could become the centerpiece of the next SOPA-style struggle between the tech community and Washington, D.C. The bill already has over 100 co-sponsors and the backing of some of Silicon Valley's most prominent companies, including Microsoft and Facebook —- support which SOPA never enjoyed. It's called the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (or CISPA, for short). CISPA would alter the existing National Security Act of 1947 to allow private businesses and the government to share information about cyberthreats — including "efforts to degrade, disrupt or destroy" vital networks or "threat or misappropriation" of information owned by the government or private businesses, such as intellectual property. SEE ALSO: SOPA 2.0: Why the Fight for Internet Freedom Is Far From Over Rep.
“Every day U.S. businesses are targeted by nation-state actors like China for cyber exploitation and theft,” said Rodgers in a statement. Thepiratebay: Circumventing Censorship. Posted on 2012.01.13 by BSOD Recently, a court in the Netherlands has ordered ISPs to begin censoring thepiratebay. Many courts across the European Union have made similar decisions but each to a different degree of severity, and each requiring a different method of circumvention. Censorship in Denmark, Ireland, the UK, Italy, and Belgium is being delivered with a simple DNS block.
DNS filters are easy to get around, and are more a symbolic annoyance than anything. For both Belgium and Italy, thepiratebay has setup alternative domains which are not previously listed in the DNS blockades. It is not clear to me, if these newly added domains are to include only domains that link to thepiratebay, or if they can simply blacklist any domain in the world that makes access to thepiratebay possible. Here I will review some censorship evasion methods: Alternative DNS Servers Once you have found it, just right click on your connection, and select properties. Alternative Piratebay Domains Mirror Sites.
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