What to do if SOPA hits.

[triggrhappy94]

I actually found a list of different IP adress for the servers of different websites, so I could still probably connect to pirating website (not like I'd use them though). Also, pirate ALWAYS find a way, you can use SOPA to nuke them back to the '90s, but they'll still recover.
The escapist might look alittle different, however.

EDIT

Spoiler: The IP List

tumblr.com 174.121.194.34
wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201

# News
bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131
aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252

# Social media
reddit.com 72.247.244.88
imgur.com 173.231.140.219
google.com 74.125.157.99
youtube.com 74.125.65.91
yahoo.com 98.137.149.56
hotmail.com 65.55.72.135
bing.com 65.55.175.254
digg.com 64.191.203.30
theonion.com 97.107.137.164
hush.com 65.39.178.43
gamespot.com 216.239.113.172
ign.com 69.10.25.46
cracked.com 98.124.248.77
sidereel.com 144.198.29.112
github.com 207.97.227.239

# Torrent sites
thepiratebay.org 194.71.107.15
mininova.com 80.94.76.5
btjunkie.com 93.158.65.211
demonoid.com 62.149.24.66
demonoid.me 62.149.24.67

# Social networking
facebook.com 69.171.224.11
twitter.com 199.59.149.230
tumblr.com 174.121.194.34
livejournal.com 209.200.154.225
dreamwidth.org 69.174.244.50
deviantart.com 199.15.160.100

# Live Streaming Content
stickam.com 67.201.54.151
blogtv.com 84.22.170.149
justin.tv 199.9.249.21
chatroulette.com 184.173.141.231
omegle.com 97.107.132.144
own3d.tv 208.94.146.80
megavideo.com 174.140.154.32

# Television
gorillavid.com 178.17.165.74
videoweed.com 91.220.176.248
novamov.com 91.220.176.248
tvlinks.com 208.223.219.206
1channel.com 208.87.33.151

# Shopping
amazon.com 72.21.211.176
newegg.com 216.52.208.187
frys.com 209.31.22.39

# File Sharing
mediafire.com 205.196.120.13
megaupload.com 174.140.154.20
dropbox.com 199.47.217.179
pastebin.com 69.65.13.216

And the Escapist's IP is 209.34.224.72 (Thanks TLS14)

Not my list don't get mad at me if anything is wrong.
Consult your CMD command guide for further dirrections.

 

[Hugga_Bear]

Presumably Anonymous has a field day and destroys every single company that supported this, in a series of endless onslaughts. The entire Internet gets up in arms, pickets the Capitol until they all get arrested Occupy-style, turns in their Internet subscriptions so the ISPs lose craptons of money, and we end up wrecking the tech economy until said companies start crying about it.

Then we win.

more likely anonymous has a field day WRECKS the dns blockers somehow. and troll the SHIT out of the us goverment. meanwhile. everyone starts using firefox with SOPA-b-gone software. XD

They wouldn't be likely to take on the government directly, they would however likely do their level best to convey the easy routes around such problems (DNS addresses instead for example).

It's a pathetically dumb law, if it passes most companies will simply leave the States and take their business elsewhere, it's not a difficult thing for an internet based company to do. Further it's easy to work around and practically speaking it's extremely difficult to catch people doing such a thing.

But yeah, I would expect several plug-ins/extensions to be up within a day of it starting...failing that simply spreading the word and supporting the sites which let you go straight to DNS with a search.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Why don't you just go cut the internet backbone... that's not drastic at all!

I don't know how this is going to go down but I very much doubt if any mass IP blocking will happen... because that's be stupid, and I doubt if the DNA service is going to change because it doesn't seem like a politically charged group. This plan doesn't seem like the right approach and sounds more like a child throwing a tantrum to me.


Also, isn't the Escapist in the Us meaning that all you international dudes and dudettes would be gone under this plan?

 

[The Funslinger]

I'm Canadian, so at least I'll have Canadian websites. I'll just migrate to the Deep Web, I already participate in a pretty good forums there. Sure, it's small, but if SOPA does pass, a lot of idiotic kids are going to be flooding the Deep Web, and that will ruin the whole thing.

Works for me, anyways.

What's the deep web?

OT: It won't be long before the "shooting yourselves in the foot" effect comes into play on the same people who back SOPA, so combined with the uproar it'd create and the boost in unemployment from arbitrarily downed websites it'd get overturned within a few years anyway. That said, I don't want to wait a few years to watch another Let's Play...

 

[The Funslinger]

Some people say ?If you can?t beat them, join them?.
I say ?If you can?t beat them, beat them?, because they will be expecting you to join them, so you will have the element of surprise.

If you can't beat them, you're obviously not using a big enough stick...

 

[Baralak]

Well, I've already written my representatives. I just hope SOPA doesn't pass. Fact of the matter is, though, is that most Americans don't know about it, because they're more concerned with Jersey Shore, or The Biggest Loser to know what SOPA is, or how it will affect, them. Still, I've told people at work, and they seem mostly apathetic, save for one co-worker who was already a big activist against it.

One of those things, though. You do what you can, and try to get other people to pick up the slack.

 

[Duruznik]

Basically, the internet is probably going to die, seeing as Websites like 4chan and Youtube are going to be banned.

But still, there is a slim chance its going to pass, so I am being on the safe side here for now. I'll take up arms once this thing get's close to passing (heaven forbid)

Wait, what? Why will it die? 4Chan and Youtube can surely just migrate their servers to non-american computers.

 

[PontiusTM]

i think i understand sopa differently from you. as far as they know, its just american isp's that stop the dns from aquiring the site for you.. if you live in america. but you can still dodge it DOS style by pinging the site, getting its ip, and then putting the ip in your browser
there are even plugins that do this atomatically for you in a milionth of a second XD

Okay. I see your point, the latest news I heard was "Man, they're taking teh pages down from teh interwebs". That obviously was wrong ^^.

Certainly, blocking 'things' on the web for specific countries is a thing that happens right now (I'm German - Ever heard of GEMA?) which is not good, but when the law is meant for the singularity of USA only I don't see a way of sueing the goverment internationally (which is obvious). It's unjust aswell and I will sign any petition and do the things in my might to stop it, but it makes the case quite harder to solve. (Petitions & Actions against GEMA are old as GEMA itself... god... they're charging kindergardens and schools for singing copyrighted christmas songs in primary classes).

nice little thing to know: they CANT take sites down. EVER. unless the servers are in the USA and they physically burn the server house down XD. ( remove the plug, cut the power, you know the drill )
if they did they people would just put their servers in the philipines, on offshore custom islands etc. (europa, asia, posibly australia if they put some propper cables down to there XD ) all they can do is force that guys that tell your computer where it has to go, not to tell you. XD its a bit like asking a passerby in s strange town where the shops are. he wont tell you, the next guy will. so screw the first guy :3

thanks for enlightening me

 

[Marcus Kehoe]

Ill look up on google on how to get past the blocks and continue as normal.

Any sights that close ill wait for the clone.

 

[Wereraccoon]

It's not IP-blocking, just DNS blocking. Basically if you tried to get to www.google.com and it was blocked, you couldn't do anything, but you could type in their IP (8.8.8.8) and it'd get you right there.

I sort of agree with this, as every big company is just going to jump straight out of Silicon valley to Europe/other supportive countries...more business is never a bad thing.

Oh my bad. I'm actually that well known with coding. Alright. We'll DNS block them then.

Well yeah. You probably already heard about the British kid which America is trying to arrest for having a website that's completely legal in the UK. I mean WHAT THE FUCK?! Who the hell do they think they are?!

There was also a case fairly recently with the US trying to close down several UK gambling websites because Americans were going on them and gambling. And I think Gambling is only legal in certain states.

Not sure how that turned out, but I know a lot of countries were getting pissed off about the connotations of them being allowed to succeed.

I think that's kinda the point. Outside of this whole SOPA business even if it doens't quite ban other countries... We're just sick of the US government trying to play police of the world.

 

[Pyro Ghost]

In Reply To Wereraccoon

I'm sick of the US trying to police everyone as well. I'm sick of other countries allowing themselves to be bullied. There are some American sites that, if blocked, won't be able to be replaced by another country, such as Rooster Teeth. Immigrating isn't as easy as most people seem to think, I've been trying to get out of this country for five years now, I have health, skills, and a good education, but the countries I've been trying to get into don't seem to want an escaping American.

 

[Something Amyss]

if it passes? watch the world burn basically.

I'll enjoy hearing how these company's in support of SOPA now start losing money hand over fist cause they killed the best marketing and distribution option they had

Sadly, instead of learning their lesson, they will push for stricter laws. This just proves them right, after all.