DNS provision pulled from SOPA, victory for opponents

[desperado]

In a move the tech sector will surely see as a victory, a controversial antipiracy bill in being debated in Congress will no longer seek to require ISPs to block access to overseas Web sites accused of piracy.

Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) today said he plans to remove the Domain Name System (DNS) blocking provision.

"After consultation with industry groups across the country," Smith said in a statement released by his office, "I feel we should remove (DNS) blocking from the Stop Online Piracy Act so that the [U.S. House Judiciary] Committee can further examine the issues surrounding this provision. We will continue to look for ways to ensure that foreign websites cannot sell and distribute illegal content to U.S. consumers.

Greg Sandoval and Declan McCullagh CNET News January 13, 2012 1:27 PM PST

[Mondoman22]

Yeah,
Demand Progress has been fighting this bill left and right
and I for one am glad... We do not live in China and it is
an assault on Rights to Freedom of Speech and not to mention
creativity... Congress and these media Moguls need to stop this
silly $hit..... How about concentrating on fixing the freaking
economy ?!!?!? What about that?!?!! Worried about Online
piracy when there is so many more real threats.... Damn goverments
need to get with the freaking program and tackle real issues...

Whats crazy is Someone can go get a vpn and bypass the damn
crap anyways geeze.....

Mondo

[@night™]

yes exactly with my vpn they will never stop from getting my Viagra from overseas works the same as it does here in USA.
200 bucks for 10 pills here usa $120us for 30 pills delivered like sopa is really gonna stop me. pm me if you need the link i've been using them for years

[galeon]

So how are they going to block it if not using DNS? by IP addresses? because that would be 10x worse.

[DSSRUEL]

Music, movies, ebooks, software

Thats what they are trying to protect
for producers, but not for authors