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Google Receives Piracy Shield Orders to Block Pirate Sites in Public DNS * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
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[+] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)
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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I mean, as far as I know, DNS is decentralized. Anyone can host their own DNS server, or change which server their network/device uses. Google's is just very commonly used because 8.8.8.8 is easy to remember, but there are thousands of others run by entities big and small, and there's nothing stopping you from running your own (assuming you manage to get a hold of a static IPv4)

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is the correct answer. The only thing I would add is some devices don't allow changing the DNS IPs and are hard coded to 8.8.8.8 so Google blocking sites via DNS is still an issue. Of course you could intercept these requests, but with DNS over HTTPS becoming more popular, i would imagine that device manufactures will also start to do certificate pinning as well to prevent people from using their own DNS server.

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  • [+] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Do I need a static ip if I plan to only use it locally from my home network?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Even remembering IP addresses isn't a great because services can change IP addresses at any point.

    As others have mentioned DNS, by its design, is decentralized...to a point. If you run your own DNS, you can't be an authority to .com addresses for example. Even that sentence has caveats.

    Generally speaking you can run your own DNS that uses root DNS servers. MPAA and others have attempted to get those servers to stop pirate domains from being resolvable but they've essentially said "fuck off".

    IMO, that's going to be the last battleground, at which point pirating will have no choice but to move to tor and/or to I2P.

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