US seizes filesharing domains – p2p advocates consider new distributed routing

There are points worth considering on both sides regarding file sharing and copyright.

However this censorship action is being taken in the name of 'homeland security'... I find this a very disturbing trend and wonder how this community feels about that.

Watch them start banning ISPs then, or taxing their upstream links

Still, distributed DNS is great -- but we would then have to trust certificate authorities that grant certificates for a certain period of time. If the certificates never expired, then domain ownership would be forever. If they did expire, then the government could forbid a certificate issuing authority to reissue a certificate, but the effect would be much sower than banning dns.