06-18-2016, 12:24 AM
(06-15-2016, 11:20 AM)barq- Wrote: But so many IOPs register their domain names with secure registrars in countries that don't much care what the USA says. Even if it is a .com an IOP can just move in the same way that torrent sites have been hopping around the internet whenever their domain is seized.
Besides, that's only the domain. I just queried what a popular IOP's address resolves to and got the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx IP address. Just checked it and it takes me straight to the site. I guess it might be an issue where multiple sites are run off the same server (I do that, but that's just for family photos and a hobby website - not running a business, let alone IOP!).
This will just be the same wack-a-mole they've had with the torrent sites. I guess it makes it a bit harder for the casual student looking to buy ritalin for their exams, but that's about it I would think.
Barq,
"wack a mole" is an apt analogy. The Internet was designed to keep the Ruskies from taking us out--info wise--in one shot. It has so many escape hatches and so much redundancy, that these efforts are just more pork barrel political efforts to fund bureaucracies and Key Stone cop strategies.
Spank