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Dec. 31st, 2011 11:41 amWith all the SOPA hoopla and such going on this year (even I couldn't help but hear about it), my eye got caught by this writeup on Torrentfreak when I was linked to the site by an article about the top ten most downloaded TV shows of the year.
Apparently there have been studies by experts on how effective the steps the U.S. government proposes to take against internet piracy actually are. Here's a bit from the article itself that really interested me:
OFCOM final conclusion on DNS blocking effectiveness from a technical stance:
“For site operators and end users with a sufficient incentive to engage in circumvention DNS blocking is technically relatively straightforward to bypass,” OFCOM notes.
Another paragraph sums up their technical assessment clearly.
“Circumvention of a block is technically a relatively trivial matter irrespective of which of the techniques used. Knowledge of how site operators and end users can work around blocks is widely distributed and easily accessible on the internet.”
“It is not technically challenging and does not require a particularly high level of skill or expertise.”
So yeah, looks like SOPA's going to be yet another thing that'll take up millions of people's tax dollars but won't do much of anything in the end to those who are really determined to keep pirating on the internet (i.e. pretty much all of them).
Brilliant.
Apparently there have been studies by experts on how effective the steps the U.S. government proposes to take against internet piracy actually are. Here's a bit from the article itself that really interested me:
OFCOM final conclusion on DNS blocking effectiveness from a technical stance:
“For site operators and end users with a sufficient incentive to engage in circumvention DNS blocking is technically relatively straightforward to bypass,” OFCOM notes.
Another paragraph sums up their technical assessment clearly.
“Circumvention of a block is technically a relatively trivial matter irrespective of which of the techniques used. Knowledge of how site operators and end users can work around blocks is widely distributed and easily accessible on the internet.”
“It is not technically challenging and does not require a particularly high level of skill or expertise.”
So yeah, looks like SOPA's going to be yet another thing that'll take up millions of people's tax dollars but won't do much of anything in the end to those who are really determined to keep pirating on the internet (i.e. pretty much all of them).
Brilliant.
