Blocking International DNS

Wed Nov 24 23:34:02 UTC 2010

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 
> 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.  

 http://www.unitethecows.com/content/321-coica-halted-following-controversy.html 

Regards
Marshall

> 
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/11/pirate-slaying-censorship-bill-gets-unanimous-support.ars
> 
> http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s111-3804
> 
> I claim operational content for this as, on the basis of court orders, i..e. a
> 
> "temporary restraining order, a preliminary injunction, or an injunction against the domain name used by an Internet site dedicated to infringing activities"
> 
> 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’s Internet protocol address;"
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> This expedited DNS cutoff is only available for copyright violations, not for other illegalities. 
> 
> 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. 
> 
> Regards
> Marshall
> 