Support The Daily WTF in supporting the SOPA movement

While many advocate against the SOPA bill, some irresponsible websites support it. Well, or at least support supportive. Here is The Daily WTF , for example. The main page is closed with a white rectangle with the following text:

We support The Daily WTF in supporting the movement in support of SOPA.

Now is January 18, 2012, and although most of the Internet decided to blacken [blackout - in the sense of "close"] our sites in protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), we took the opposite position and whitened [white-out] Daily WTF in support of supporting SOPA.

If there is anything that SOPA supporters like me and his opponents can agree with, then PROTECT-IP and Stop Online Piracy Act have little to do with protecting intellectual property and stopping Internet piracy.

In the end, those who choose to steal the result of their creative work, such as “I have a dream,” written by author Martin Luther King Jr., may already be sued and prosecuted under applicable copyright laws in the United States.Intellectual property thieves living abroad may already be extradited to stand before our fair federal court. And the Department of Homeland Security can already arbitrarily confiscate domain names that match its arbitrary standard of violating national something there.

Although these laws make such actions more illegal (and, therefore, reduce their number), they do something much more important: they help destroy the DNS and the Internet, as we know it. And that is exactly what we strongly support.

You see, before, if you wanted to go online and access information stored there, such as digitized photos, electronic bulletin boards (BBS), information databanks, you only needed to know one thing: a phone number. You just started your favorite communication program (I preferred Telix), he dialed this phone number, and, after a refreshing symphony of beeps and whistles, you were on the Internet.

Each phone number sent you to a wonderful peaceful community that was almost completely self-sufficient. There were no “hyperlinks” between the systems: you simply wrote down the phone number, disconnected from the system, and then dialed a new number. And let me say, little in life could compare with the absolute delight of opening a new issue and a new electronic resource.

And then came this Information Superhighway - and its closely integrated Domain Name System (DNS) - exterminating these peaceful, independent communities. The BBSs of the past were ground and mixed in a giant dot-com machine, leaving us with an interconnected web of domain names. You do not “go online” —you are already on the Internet — and if you want to access an electronic resource, you can use a “domain name” such as TheDailyWTF.com.

Domain names are a rather confusing concept, since they not only describe what an electronic resource is, but also where it is located. Nothing else in the world works like that, for obvious reasons. Can you imagine how this would complicate ordinary, daily things, for example, getting a phone number? How is it, "Jenny eighty-six dot com" or "Jenny eighty-six dot no"? That would be complete chaos.

SOPA and PROTECT-IP offer hope for a return to the golden age of telecommunications, the days when the Information Superhighway has not yet infected online culture with all this nonsense with domain names. Let the DNS die a natural death and prepare for the return of the Internet Protocol Number (IPN). All you need to do is start a notepad in which the names of electronic resources and their corresponding IPN are recorded. And let the first entry in it be

Daily WTF 74.50.110.120

We can only hope that our legislators, following common sense, will also ban HTTP (and HTML / JavaScript), and we can all return to the more reasonable GOPHER standard.

Translator's note: trolling is good, fit. But in my opinion too thin. I almost missed the text without reading, taking the headline seriously.