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If reports are to be believed, the citizens in the USA may soon have to part ways with the VPN and Proxy services. The Protect IP Act introduced by the US Senate, backed significantly by the House of Representatives in the form of SOPA, a short form for Stop Online Privacy Act (or E-Parasite) seem to be pointing towards such a bitter truth with elan.
If you still don’t happen to know what Protect IP or e-Parasite Act is, watch the following video,
Side Effects of SOPA
The newly introduced bill gives Hollywood a greater control over censorship since it aims to implement dire provisions of software censorship. It has indications to blacklist all the distributors and software developers that are involved in developing software used for file sharing; blacklisting entries in the DNS is a passé now.
It also targets any service provider who offers its products/services to protect the users from getting into the DNS blacklist. This straightly intends to single out Mozilla since it refused assistance to the Department of Homeland Security in the latter’s attempts to filter DNS.
Concerns regarding filter bypassing tools
VPN restriction: Ahead of all such restrictions, SOPA also intends to block the use of VPN and proxy services along with myriad privacy software that allow the users to ensure anonymity while on the internet. An individual or a company accused of distributing any such service would be compelled to face legal battle with the United States Attorney General.
SSH worries: Secured shell (SSH) that was hitherto considered to be the safest methods to bypass filtering has also come under scrutiny with the introduction of this user-unfriendly bill. Consisting of Proxy functionality, SSH software has been installed in uncountable computers and is of great significance for professionals involved in tasks related to system administration.
If it is forced to face the wrath of censorship, a majority of US citizens would be deprived of their freedom over the internet. SSH is termed as the best anti censorship tool by many after VPN.
Other censorships: Hollywood may also raise eyebrows if any of the users is working with zone files for gTLDs or is involved in its distribution. It may charge you of violating the SOPA orders by providing uncensored list of files illegally.
Even if you are writing DNSSEC resolver for client side that requires multiple users till it reaches a valid sign entry, it could cause problems and may tend you to face trial before U.S. Attorney General.
Dire consequences
Such type of censorship could be a real trouble for individual companies that are involved in production or distribution of software. Alongside, restriction of communities that promote open source software, would not only cause problems for themselves but for the entire community members that are used to leveraging their services for their personal use.
Moreover, all the open source software these communities promote make up for a bulk of economic gains in US that goes in billions of dollars. Hence, implementing such a bill could even pose a major threat to the progress of nation.
Bottom Line
In short, the SOPA bill is concerned with blocking not only the web pages accused of infringement but it intends to bring the whole of website to book. Consequently, the entire domain would be on the verge of a no show on the web, which is a matter of grave concern.
Hence attempts are desired to protest such a law including the requests to the related authorities to amend the bill in a manner that it may prove to be more citizen friendly law rather than being not a nightmare.
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