Originally Posted by BradyFTW!

Exactly: there are already browser extensions in development that, when installed, will basically add another layer, client-side, on top of DNS servers. If you type, for example, the Pirate Bay's URL (not going to link to it here on PatsFans, of course), then it would refer to this extension's list of IPs, and, if an entry is found, it will simply direct the user to that IP address without ever producing a DNS query. This process circumvents DNS filtering entirely, and is incredibly easy to accomplish.

Most sites will still have IP addresses that you can navigate to directly, and that will remain a viable means for circumventing all of this stuff. Incidentally, that's how I kept up to date with Wikileaks after it was "taken down". Example:

If anyone wants to know the IP address of a website, they can do the following:

1) Access the command terminal (on Windows Vista and 7, you click start, type
"cmd" without the quotes into the search bar, and then press enter)

2) type "ping www.patsfans.com" (again without the quotes). From the reply information, you will see that the patsfans IP address is 208.116.51.99.

3) Navigate to 208.116.51.99 instead of patsfans.com in your web browser. If Patsfans were ever to get blacklisted through SOPA, you'd still be able to get here through that IP address.

Of course, Ian would suddenly find himself unable to make any advertising revenue without switching to offshore networks, though, and we probably wouldn't get any new users since nobody would be able to find us on Google. So Ian would be pretty much screwed, but for a site that planned on being blacklisted and had already moved its advertising outside of US jurisdiction? They'd be fine.

When a pirate site gets blacklisted, most/all of its users will already have the IP address written down, so they'll still be able to get there. The aforementioned browser extensions will make it even easier, and they'll be using offshore payment processors and ad networks, so they will still be able to monetize their traffic. SOPA will seriously be that easy to circumvent. I just showed you all how to do it- it's just a couple of extremely simple steps.

In short, this bill will barely be a speedbump for foreign sites that deliberately host copyrighted content. Their entire ecosystem of users will be prepared for this, and they'll have their own payment processors and ad networks located far outside of the US gov't's reach. The only sites that will get really screwed are places like Patsfans, where all it will take is one Jets troll posting a link to a site that has copyrighted content and then reporting it to get the entire site blacklisted.

Originally Posted by sly24

Anonymous is going on a rampage right now lol

Originally Posted by rojo8401

Because that's not the intent of the bill. Why are you assuming that it is? Sure, someone in the future could try to alter the bill to suit their nefarious ends but that's pure speculation.

Let's try to limit this discussion to the facts and not let fear mongering creep in.