Re: Blocking International DNS

[Bjørn Mork <bjorn () mork no>]

Joakim Aronius <joakim () aronius com> writes:
> * Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists () gmail com) wrote:
> > This isnt new - there have been proposals elsewhere for a resolver
> > based blacklist of child porn sites.
>
> Swedish ISPs are required to enforce a DNS blacklist for childporn,
> perhaps also other European countries.

Yes, this has alrady spread to a number of European countries:
http://circamp.eu/

> And once you get these things in place you never know where it will end...

Unfortunately, yes.  We already have a pretty ugly example of that:
Telenor (Norwegian ISP) was sued by the music and film industry with a
demand that Telenor should block all access to The Pirate Bay.  The
suggested method was abusing this DNS filter to block access to a number
of Pirate Bay domains.

Luckily the Norwegian court system do sometimes work:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS401576177920091106

But history usually repeats itself, so I assume this idea will come up
again.  And again.  And again.



Bjørn