[AusNOG] Internet companies forced to block The Pirate Bay, bittorrent websites in Australia, Federal Court rules

[Mark Smith]

"translucent" proxies ... and $50 a domain isn't going to pay for one of
those on any level of scale.

On 16 Dec. 2016 9:40 am, <andrew at mcnaughty.com> wrote:

> I suppose you could run transparent proxies, but simply blocking traffic
> would cause many things to fail, as hard coded DNS settings are quite
> common in applications and devices.
>
> Andrew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: michael.bethune at australiaonline.net.au
> To: james.braunegg at micron21.com
> Cc: AusNOG Mailing List <ausnog at ausnog.net>
> Sent: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 9:33
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Internet companies forced to block The Pirate Bay,
> bittorrent websites in Australia, Federal Court rules
>
> Quoting Mark Smith <markzzzsmith at gmail.com>:
>
> > On 15 Dec. 2016 5:02 pm, "James Braunegg" <james.braunegg at micron21.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> ...
> >
> > Once the sites are blocked, people who continue to visit the blocked
> sites
> > will see a warning page informing them the site cannot be accessed.
> >
> > The "landing page" as it is referred to, will be hosted by either the
> ISP
> > or the rights holder.  ß What a nice attack target that will be for kids
> on
> > Holidays who can not download?
> >
> > So where is the official piece of paper?.  And how will this stop users
> > from using 8.8.8.8 for DNS.
>
> Of course, it is feasible to require ISPs to block use of external DNS
> servers...
>
> Just saying.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Michael Bethune
> Australia On Line
>
>
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