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DNS Filtering Bill Riles Tech Experts, Hacktivists

Summary: A Senate bill, the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act offered by Sen. Patrick Leahy, would let the Justice Department obtain court orders requiring U.S. ISPs to filter DNS requests for domains found to host infringing content. Five DNS experts - Steve Crocker, David Dagon, Dan Kaminsky, Danny McPherson and Paul Vixie - sent Senate leaders a whitepaper calling the approach minimally effective and warning it would promote circumvention techniques that threaten the DNS's ability to provide universal naming.

Bottom line: The people who built and run DNS are telling the Senate that mandating DNS filtering would push the market toward alternate naming systems and fragment the single unified namespace the Internet depends on - and the bill's supporters lost their public website to Anonymous for most of a holiday weekend over it.

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