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The U.S. Government has to walk a tightrope of taking down enough sites via DNS seizures to appease their RIAA and MPAA masters while not taking down so many sites that people wise up and switch to an alternate DNS scheme like OpenNIC.

http://www.opennicproject.org/

EDIT Anyone that thinks the U.S. Government didn't pressure the various governments involved to do the actual takedowns is naive.

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DNS is not exactly hard to censor; mandating the ISPs to drop requests for those "banned" domains doesn't seem particularly far-fetched.

What does this have to do with ISPs? You mean mess with my dns query packets to my own DNS server that is NOT hosted by them?

Yes, that's what I mean.

Well in that case i ll tunnel my requests.

Sure, you can even put the IPs on your hosts file. But 300bps was talking about the "people" in general switching to OpenNIC - and I think that it's unlikely enough that they'll do that, much less that they'll start tunneling their requests.

This story has nothing to do with the US Government or US-controlled domains.

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