There’s much ado online these past few weeks promoting the demise of the SOPA act. Many smart people are arguing it will destroy the internet as we know it. That may be true but that may also be exactly what we need.

We’ve long known about the problems with the current DNS system from its centralization to its lack of encryption. While it seems like a dozen new solutions are proposed each year, nothing ever seems to take off. If SOPA were to pass, it could be the exact catalyst that DNS alternatives need to propel them into the forefront. Until the major players make a stand and adopt DNS alternatives, it will forever be a partial embrace of a better world. If all these people and companies who would be potentially negatively effected by the passing of SOPA would collaborate and embrase one of the dozens of DNS alternatives, it will be enough to push the momentum in the direction of ridding ourselves of our current flawed system once and for all. If we fail to pass SOPA, we may well live in a world where we’re forever stuck with a flawed and insecure centralized DNS hierarchy that’ll already just as easily controlled without SOPA. Department of Homeland security already takes downs domains at will. If that’s isn’t bad enough to force a paradigm shift in DNS then perhaps something a bit worse like SOPA will be enough motivation for us to collectively solve one of the biggest problems facing the internet: the current DNS system.

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