Blocking International DNS

[Marshall Eubanks <tme () americafree tv>]

It seems that the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) passed through the Senate Judiciary 
Committee 
with a unanimous (!) vote :

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/11/pirate-slaying-censorship-bill-gets-unanimous-support.ars

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s111-3804

I claim operational content for this as, on the basis of court orders, i..e. a

"temporary restraining order, a preliminary injunction, or an injunction against the domain name used by an Internet 
site dedicated to infringing activities"

it requires that, for foreign domain names,

"(i) a service provider, as that term is defined in section 512(k)(1) of title 17, United States Code, or other 
operator of a domain name system server shall take reasonable steps that will prevent a domain name from resolving to 
that domain name’s Internet protocol address;"

This expedited DNS cutoff is only available for copyright violations, not for other illegalities. 

Whether this has any chance of actually passing through this Lame Duck Congress remains to be seen, but my personal 
reading is that that is not likely. 

Regards
Marshall