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DeSopa: DNS Evasion to Stop Organized Predators in America

SECTIONS:---------I. ABOUTII. HOW TO USEIII. KNOWN LIMITATIONS

IV. SPECIAL THANKS

I. ABOUT:---------Powerful special interests are attempting to force legislationfor tighter control of the Internet, because they believe suchlegislation will preserve their power. The bill they havesponsored, SOPA, not only has severe consequences for theInternet, it doesn't even achieve their objectives. SOPA, underthe innocuous banner "Stop Online Piracy Act" will have thefollowing repercussions:

1) Make organizations, such as Google, Facebook, Digg and Redditliable to censor user generated content. Censoring billions ofrecords for billions of possible violations is expensive. Oneof these companies has already stated that it may be forced toshut down as a result of the financial burden caused by SOPA.Other companies may have to scale back the services they offerfor free, or otherwise charge for them.

2) Provide well financed trade groups such the MPAA and RIAA withleverage to shape the future of the internet for the benefit ofthe organizations they represent, by threatening closure ofservices that they believe are not in their interest.

3) Create a high barrier to entry for start-ups and a rough legallandscape for small businesses. If SOPA was implemented 10 years

ago, there is a high probability that we would not have many ofthe online services we take for granted such as YouTube and Pandora.

4) The probable dissolution of DNS caused by the natural circumventionof blocked sites will result in wide array of security problems,bleeding the digital economy of integrity.

The internet creates market efficiencies that forces industries to adapt,thus pushing forward progress for humanity as a whole. Public freedomsshould not be curtailed and the Internet, built by the masses, should notbe destroyed, so that a powerful few may have a false sense of securitythat their business models are sustainable without technological evolution.

This program is a proof of concept that SOPA will not help prevent piracy.The program, implemented as a Firefox extension, simply contacts offshoredomain name resolution services to obtain the IP address for any desiredwebsite, and accesses those websites directly via IP. Similar offshoreresolution services will eventually maintain their own cache of websites,without blacklisting, in order to meet the demand created by SOPA.

If SOPA is implemented, thousands of similar and more innovative programsand services will sprout up to provide access to the websites that peoplefrequent. SOPA is a mistake. It does not even technically help solve theunderlying problem, as this software illustrates. What it will do is giveundue leverage to predatory organizations, cripple innocent third partywebsites, severely dampen digital innovation and negatively impact the

integrity and security of the Internet.

Please bring this to the attention of congressmen responsible for voting

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on SOPA. SOPA will not technically achieve its stated objectives. Anyonevoting in favor of it is morally responsible for destroying the freedoms,innovation, hard work and aspirations of many.

II. HOW TO USE:---------------

- Enable the Status/Add-on bar if it is not enabled (View->Toolbars->Add-on bar)- Click on the yellow DeSopa button in the Status/Add-on bar, at the bottomof the browser window, to access websites by IP.

- Click the green DeSopa button to switch back to DNS resolution.

III. KNOWN LIMITATIONS:------------------------ Does not resolve subdomains.- Can only resolve tabs one at a time.- First time resolution is a bit slow because three services are checked serial

ly and compared. This may be done in parallel in the future, or a trusted single

source may be used.

IV. SPECIAL THANKS:-------------------- Tamer Rizk- Ralf D. Kloth- Craig Small- Anouar Adlani

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