Acording to TorrentFreak, a new de-centralized DNS system in being developed, to better resist against takedowns from legal forces. This as a response of recent seizures by U.S. authorities. If correctly implemented, this will allow an Internet Domain Name to resist attacks or seizures mandated by the Courts, for instance. For me, this is a preoccupying development. In fact, I've been saying this for years:
The net effect of the efforts of law enforcement agencies (particularly copyright holders like the MPAA and the RIAA) is to force a "natural selection" process where each file sharing method is more developed and resistant than the previous. What if a swas so de-centralized you can't take it down? What if a site was so resilient to attack that you couldn't kill it, ever?
In ten years, as a result of pressures from "The Man", we will have one or more completely impenetrable, untraceable, encrypted "subnets" (some timid examples exist: see "darknet" and "freenet"), running parallel to the "normal" Internet. These "subnets" will be the final and ultimate refuge of not just pirates, freedom fighters and political dissidents, but also pedophiles, terrorists, racists, white supremacists.
Once this technology has been developed and implemented, there is no turning back. You can't put the genie back in the bottle. So it would be best for all to re-think our war on software piracy, lest we create a monster nobody can kill.
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