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Submission + - Coders Develop Ways to Defeat SOPA Censorship

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "The Atlantic reports that one developer who doesn't have much faith in Congress making the right decision on anti-piracy legislation has already built a work around for the impending censorship measures being considered and called it DeSOPA. Since SOPA would block specific domain names (e.g. www.thepiratebay.com) of allegedly infringing sites, T Rizk's Firefox add-on allows you to revert to the bare internet protocol (IP) address (e.g. 194.71.107.15) which takes you to the same place. “It could be that a few members of congress are just not tech savvy and don’t understand that it is technically not going to work, at all," says T Rizk. "So here’s some proof that I hope will help them err on the side of reason and vote SOPA down." Another group called “MAFIAAFire” decided to respond when Homeland Security’s ICE unit started seizing domain names, by coding a browser add-on to redirect the affected websites to their new domains and more than 200,000 people have already installed the add-on. ICE wasn’t happy and asked Mozilla to pull the add-on from their site but Mozilla denied the request, arguing that this type of censorship may threaten the open Internet."

Comment Re:let's see DRM, high cost of HDD's get in the wa (Score 1) 371

I've used Handbrake in the past, and like their software. I tried using it recently on my new laptop, though, and was having trouble with playing the output. Probably I tweaked some setting wrong... whatever it was, VLC didn't like it. Instead of slogging through and trying to figure it out, I went looking for alternative software. I tried Freemake Video Converter, and it worked pretty well for my needs (i.e., giving me disc-free Wrath of Khan on-the-go).

Comment Re:It's a Bad Idea (Score 1) 76

But today, with computers and intarwebs and such things, these records are free and pretty broadly available. So someone who, say, wants to letter bomb the residents and owners of every apartment in a tri-county area, can do it with virtually no effort or expense.

Not sure this is a very good argument. What's to stop someone from doing the same thing using a local phone book?

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