New Firefox Extension Bypasses Government Domain Seizures
New Firefox Extension Bypasses Government Domain Seizures
Posted 04/14/2011 at 2:33pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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The seizure of file-sharing domain names by US authorities has been a hot button issue for the last few months, and the practice is not expected to stop any time soon. Taking away site's domain name is a blow to be sure, but many sites just set up shop at another address. A new Firefox extension aims to make the process easier, and poke at the copyright police at the same time.
MAFIAA Fire was officially published to the Firefox Add-on gallery today, and will be ported to Chrome soon. This extension will be used to maintain a list of seized domains and automatically reroute users to the new web address if one has been set up. Webmasters are being encouraged to register alternate domains ahead of time in anticipation of eventual seizure.
The developers of the add-on have stated they will be working on additional extensions and plug-ins soon. MAFIAA Fire will be open sourced in the coming days, so expect variants of it to start popping up. The extension is available from the Mozilla site.
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bathtbgin
April 14, 2011 at 9:07pm
MPC you seem to have forgotten that they are just alleged file sharing sites, there were no warrants, no charges, and no convictions, all you have suggesting that these sites are related to file sharing is the word of DHS and Disney.
KenLV
April 15, 2011 at 1:43am
"just alleged file sharing sites" Seriously? Kinda like the kid on the corner is “just allegedly” selling crack. At least be intellectually honest and try to defend the actions of these sites based on something. Like their belief that capitalism sucks or that everything should be free, and there is nothing that belongs to anyone.
Yeah, these guys are all just good world citizens yearning to be free and are just trying to help break free from the binds of man “knowledge”. Knowledge belongs to the world man, and no one has the right to hold information hostage! Oh, and if that doesn’t work for you…the ONLY reason they even do this is because there aren't enough Demos of products. If they like the product, they WILL pay for it and they expect everyone downloading it to as well – pinky promise.
Mighty BOB!
April 16, 2011 at 2:28pm
I lol'd.
Seriously MaxPC, how long is it going to be before publishing to facebook is removed or made opt-in?
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