US Senate Committee Passes PROTECT IP Act

angry tapir writes "A US Senate committee has unanimously approved a controversial bill that would allow the US Department of Justice to seek court orders requiring search engines and Internet service providers to stop sending traffic to websites accused of infringing copyright."

Bill Stuck In Senate Plumbing

[beringreenbear]

The damage has been halted for now. [arstechnica.com] Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon put a hold on the bill, meaning that the Senate leadership is on notice that he will filibusterer it if the bill moves to full debate and vote.

Goodbye thepiratebay.org

[elrous0]

I've said for a long time that a U.S. great firewall was coming. I'm frankly just surprised it took so long. Sadly, this will now begin a big chase game of "change our IP" "IP blocked, change it again" for all the torrent/controversial sites that the government doesn't like. No more typing "wikileaks.org" into our browsers' URL field. Now we have to find a (hopefully) updated IP address from some site that will probably itself be blocked shortly after it starts offering a list.

Re:Goodbye thepiratebay.org

[lennier1]

There's a reason why we have addons like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mafiaafire-redirector/ [mozilla.org] to automate that process.

Re:NOT the PATRIOT act

[countertrolling]

Not really.. Both are grievous offenses against our rights, just in different areas. Resistance to both, and all the others that are on the books are equally important. The idea is to fight infringement by the authorities and make them ineffective.

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Possible missuse

[currently_awake]

So if I hack the republicans website to host copyrighted material then the entire republican party gets banned from the internet?

Re:So where does this leave us?

[Randle_Revar]

>Internet: 1993-
Nope. The phrase you are looking for is "world wide web", and even that is actually a few years older than Mosaic

The Invisible Internet Project is running

[Burz]

http://www.geti2p.net/ [geti2p.net]

I've been using it for over a year and it works very well. It has email, web sites, bittorrent, and emule among other things (they are working on bitcoin too). Your public key is the same as your address, and routing is highly decentralized (everyone internally routes for the network by default) so even blocking people by IP or their key address is not really possible.