[tor-talk] The Stop Online Piracy Act

[Jim]

I haven't seen this brought up on this list yet, so I thought I would 
mention it.  Tech Dirt (among others) are reporting on yet another round 
of misguided (U.S.) legislation supposedly targeting copyright 
infringement.  Part of this legislation involves attempting to prevent 
DNS from resolving "offensive" domain names.  The part that seems like 
it could potentially affect Tor (in my non-lawyer) mind is:

"To ensure compliance with orders issued pursuant to this section, the 
Attorney General may bring an action for injunctive relief.... against 
any entity that knowingly and willfully provides or offers to provide a 
product or service designed or marketed for the circumvention or 
bypassing of measures described in paragraph (2) and taken in response 
to a court order issued pursuant to this  subsection, to enjoin such 
entity from interfering with the order  by continuing to provide or 
offer to provide such product or service."


http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111026/12130616523/protect-ip-renamed-e-parasites-act-would-create-great-firewall-america.shtml

Jim