I wonder if there is a way of distributing a signed file that contains the IP address of sci-hub over a distributed medium?
Someone else would just need to write a small script that copied it into the system's host file - but make it generic enough that it works for anything. That would help non-technical users.
This would stop courts from going after centralised name servers.
There really needs to be a way of decentralising name servers.
It's possible in principle. Just use public-key cryptography (perhaps the SSL cert of the website), grep and ed. You could have it update once a day from the sites listed, or perhaps create some type of dht backend.
Someone else would just need to write a small script that copied it into the system's host file - but make it generic enough that it works for anything. That would help non-technical users.
This would stop courts from going after centralised name servers.
There really needs to be a way of decentralising name servers.