FUCK YOU AMERICA GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY INTERNETS!!!

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has starting seizing domain names directly from fucking ICANN!!! WTF ICANN!? Who decided to leave DNS root servers in the states anyway FFS? I knew that was a bad idea and it was only a matter of time before those corrupt mother fuckers did something doge.

So far they’ve rerouted the DNS entries for about 70 domains which include sites linking to intellectual property (read: torrents/p2p) and counterfeit products sites. But keep in mind this is without any warnings to the site operators, no DCMA or takedown requests. The DCMA was put in place to provide a means to request the site owners to take down the infringing stuff before you take their shit. The US Govt skipped straight to taking their shit. And the US Govt can do this to any domain in the world. Fuck off you bastards!

News stories:

• http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-seizes-bittorrent-search-engine-domain-and-more-101126/
• http://www.osnews.com/story/24074/US_Government_Censors_70_Websites
• http://fseek.me/2010/11/u-s-gov-seizes-bittorrent-search-site-torrent-finder-technical-details/

The DHS must be involved just to spread fear, looks like they are catering their rich business lobbyists who are unable/unwilling to evolve to the current media distribution formats. ZOMG people taking pirated software on planes are putting your kids at danger!

So the MAFIAA wanna hax our internets by crying to the US Govt instead of being innovative. It looks like they have bought the politicians who allowed this shit to happen. The were already trying to get this through with the secret ACTA treaty and the COICA bill. This legislation protects no one but the copyright holders in MAFIAA who have the law makers in their pockets.

Time to get off the root servers. Your ISP will be getting its updates from the root servers. But the websites who had their domain names seized will still be online, but only accessible via the IP (provided they haven’t any virtual hosts). So I would recommend you change your DNS settings to get your DNS from some open dns servers. These ones are unhackable by the govt so you can access stuff they blacklist (unless they break into datacenters and steal some servers – which I wouldn’t put past them).

• http://dns.telecomix.org/
• http://www.opennicproject.org/
• http://www.unifiedroot.com/en/How-it-Works/Overview-How-it-Works

Of course you could say, well I don’t run a counterfeit/pirate site so it doesn’t matter to me. Well this is where it starts people. Like the No fly blacklist in the states (seriously wtf is wrong with these dickbags), there’s going to be false positives and they probably won’t take you off the blacklist. And of course there’s the “first they came for the christians but I was not a christian so I said nothing” et al thing.

Looks like the UK want to do this as well:

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11845961
• http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/11/25/police-get-major-new-powers-seize-domains/

Some other info (pulled from the torrentfreak comments):

• Vermont Senator gets a letter from the RIAA:
  • http://www.riaa.com/…Chorus-of-Support-For-Rogue-Sites-Bill
  • http://image.exct.net/…/101021_MultiIndustry_S3804_CombatingOnlineInfringementandCounterfeitsAct_Leahy.pdf
• http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10133425-38.html#ixzz16Q6wmEHx

This could be the end of the internet as we know it folks. I remember a very wise uni lecturer telling us that we are very lucky to live in the age of the unrestricted internet for governments are surely scared of it, businesses can be threatened by it, so they would naturally move to shut it down.

So blog about this. Tell your friends. Spread the word.

ICANN is now a fascist organization.

KGO!!