{"article":{"id":251134,"heading":"This Megaupload Post Isn't Illegal Yet","author":"nobody","created":"2012-01-24 02:16:54","modified":"2012-01-24 02:16:54","last_modified":"Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:16:54","article":"<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/megaupload-back-high-tech-whack-mole\/story?id=15405292#.TxzCJE-XJXR\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/megaupload-back-high-tech-whack-mole\/story?id=15405292#.TxzCJE-XJXR<\/a> <br><br>    \"Megaupload is now on a server that has no domain name but has the <br>  <br>     address <a href=\"http:\/\/109.236.83.66\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/109.236.83.66<\/a>. According to the website <br>  <br>     www.urlquery.net, the Megaupload's new server is based in the <br>  <br>     Netherlands.  Overnight supporters for the site hosted the remnants of <br>  <br>     Megaupload at www.Megavideo.bz indicating that content was being <br>  <br>     hosted in Belize.\" <br><br> So this begs the question - if SOPA was in effect, would this post be illegal? <br><br> And if this post were illegal, could the DNS for this site be altered and the site \"taken down\"? <br><br> And further, if alternative DNS servers that have not blocked this DNS record appeared, and ISPs started to use these, would that be considered aiding in piracy? <br><br> This is why SOPA is bad legislation.  It's poorly conceived, and technically ham-handed.\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Megaupload got knocked out, but a mirror has appeared.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2012\/01\/251134.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}