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Comment by leloctai | Hacker News Reader

How will users find the new domains? If they can reliability do so then dns is not needed in the first place. If not, then the laws are effective.

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There are almost certainly aggregate sites that will share the new domains, messages boards, social media, instant messaging, etc. Word of the new domains will travel very quickly.

Hell, they could setup their own public DNS outside of France and suggest users use that. Users already switched from local/ISP DNS to Cloudflare / Google because of the previous law so that is not a big hurdle (ignoring the obvious security problem - many users won't care they just want to watch the game).

My point though is that these laws will be very easy to bypass just like most anti piracy laws before it. Note that The Pirate Bay is still up and running.

> Users already switched from local/ISP DNS to Cloudflare / Google because of the previous law so that is not a big hurdle (ignoring the obvious security problem - many users won't care they just want to watch the game).

In many cases it was browsers changing the used resolver behind the users back contrary to OS-wide settings.

Twitter and Wikipedia as a source to locate the actual dns address worked for the pirate bay back in the day, I assume if nothing else piracy sites would not be afraid to just use raw ip addresses.

Google and friends (literally, your friends will tell you).

"Hey leloctai, what's the new URL for <torrent_site>?"

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