From Jimmymac@copper.net Fri Jul 6 02:33:03 2018 From: Jim To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: [tor-talk] The Stop Online Piracy Act Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:33:03 +0000 Message-ID: <172289270147.3881296.11920608270487928439.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2359929025781856088==" --===============2359929025781856088== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I haven't seen this brought up on this list yet, so I thought I would =20 mention it. Tech Dirt (among others) are reporting on yet another round =20 of misguided (U.S.) legislation supposedly targeting copyright =20 infringement. Part of this legislation involves attempting to prevent DNS=20 from resolving "offensive" domain names. The part that seems like it could=20 potentially affect Tor (in my non-lawyer) mind is: "To ensure compliance with orders issued pursuant to this section, the =20 Attorney General may bring an action for injunctive relief.... against any=20 entity that knowingly and willfully provides or offers to provide a =20 product or service designed or marketed for the circumvention or bypassing=20 of measures described in paragraph (2) and taken in response to a court=20 order issued pursuant to this subsection, to enjoin such entity from=20 interfering with the order by continuing to provide or offer to provide=20 such product or service." http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111026/12130616523/protect-ip-renamed-e-pa= rasites-act-would-create-great-firewall-america.shtml Jim _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk ----- End forwarded message ----- --=20 Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --===============2359929025781856088==--