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Ahh, but my main point is that the capability is baked into every firewall/router and it does not take a hacker to configure it to bypass SOPA. It would be easy to make instructions that "anybody's mother" could follow to configure to point to a non-SOPAed DNS server.

If SOPA is passed, it would make firewall/routers illegal unless the manufacturers removed the ability to set the DNS server, which is clearly nonsense and unenforceable.

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You may be surprised about how challenging it may be for "anybody's mother". Anyway, DeSopa was a quick way to prove a point. I expect that if SOPA passes offshore DNS services will advertise their IPs for manual setup (resolv.conf, TCP/IP windows settings etc), and local applications will be developed that circumvent SOPA in this and other ways.