In a response to the recently flurry of aggressive takedowns against P2P and piracy-related websites, a group of programmers decided to work on a decentralized system that would make domains untouchable. The Dot-P2P project is partially powered (appropriately enough) by BitTorrent.

The main problem here is that if you are either running or patronizing a website that runs afoul of US copyright law, it is extremely easy for your site to be knocked offline, should a court give the OK. It might sound like a gross generalization, but a large part of the internet is essentially owned by the United States. ICANN, responsible for handing out and maintaining the domain suffixes (such as .com, .org, .net, etc) is part of the US Department of Commerce and it works closely with domain registrars. When a US court decides that rap music sharing site OnSmash.com (among others) has leaked its last album, taking the domain from under its feet was easy.

What this alternative system would do is direct browsers to .p2p domains, through a decentralized, BitTorrent-style system, which makes it so you won’t see ICANN, court interference, and presumably no takedowns. The project already is seeing the backing of major internet rebels like Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde and torrent powerhouse EZTV. Dot-P2P is still in its infancy stages but as Sunde himself comments, it is sending a clarion message: “If they try anything, we have weapons of making it harder for them to abuse it. If they then back down, we win.”

Just how righteous a battle like this is all depends on your views of copyright laws but it is an interesting take on web liberties nonetheless. What is your opinon? Let us know in the comments below!

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[Source: TorrentFreak]

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