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

[Paul Wilkins]

"Of course, it is feasible to require ISPs to block use of external DNS
servers..."

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.

I'd be really curious to know if this was oversite of the rights holders,
or they didn't want to go there.

Reason being, technically, it's possible to intercept DNS requests to other
service providers. But legally, you'd be in no man's land.
1 - due to the costs of doing DPI imposed, and the impacts on the rest of
the business
2 - you run foul of the *Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979*
running an unauthorised wiretap

Kind regards

Paul Wilkins


On 16 December 2016 at 09:32, <michael.bethune at australiaonline.net.au>
wrote:

> 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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