<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>"Of course, it is feasible to require ISPs to block use of external DNS servers..."<br><br></div>Which begs the question, why didn't they? They've just been through the court process, which is going to road block traffic for as long as it takes for someone to tweet instructions for circumventing the block, and someone to google for it.<br><br></div>I'd be really curious to know if this was oversite of the rights holders, or they didn't want to go there.<br><br></div>Reason being, technically, it's possible to intercept DNS requests to other service providers. But legally, you'd be in no man's land.<br></div>1 - due to the costs of doing DPI imposed, and the impacts on the rest of the business<br></div>2 - you run foul of the <i>Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979</i> running an unauthorised wiretap<br></div><br></div>Kind regards<br><br></div>Paul Wilkins<br><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 December 2016 at 09:32, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.bethune@australiaonline.net.au" target="_blank">michael.bethune@australiaonline.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Quoting Mark Smith <<a href="mailto:markzzzsmith@gmail.com" target="_blank">markzzzsmith@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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On 15 Dec. 2016 5:02 pm, "James Braunegg" <<a href="mailto:james.braunegg@micron21.com" target="_blank">james.braunegg@micron21.com</a>><br>
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Once the sites are blocked, people who continue to visit the blocked sites<br>
will see a warning page informing them the site cannot be accessed.<br>
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The "landing page" as it is referred to, will be hosted by either the ISP<br>
or the rights holder. ß What a nice attack target that will be for kids on<br></span>
Holidays who can not download?<br>
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So where is the official piece of paper?. And how will this stop users<span class=""><br>
from using 8.8.8.8 for DNS.<br>
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Of course, it is feasible to require ISPs to block use of external DNS servers...<br>
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Just saying.<br>
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Kind regards<br>
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Michael Bethune<br>
Australia On Line<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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