<i>"I think its up to us all to take as much control away from third parties and call for a Declaration of the Internet"</i><p>Were you thinking of something like this:<p><a href="http://w2.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html" rel="nofollow">http://w2.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html</a><p>So far, I think Namecoin is the only P2P DNS solution that can work. I think the guy working on Phantom protocol (code.google.com/p/phantom) was planning on using something like DHT for a decentralized DNS.<p>Right now there are only 2 choices if you want to keep a free Internet:<p>1) Try to stop them from passing bills like Protect IP, by making a lot of noise online and offline, and trying to gather as much support for this.<p>2) Let them do what they want, and eventually we all move to something like Phantom.<p>Obviously this 2nd solution doesn't seem ideal, at least in the short term. Long term, it might be better to have a completely anonymized and decentralized Internet. But it seems like such a hard task to get to the point where many people would use it. It took a decade for Bittorrent to be used by many people, even though I wouldn't say it's exactly mainstream right now.<p>So the <i>easier</i> way to keep our Internet freedoms would be to speak out against such measures and do whatever it takes to stop them (even revolutions). And it seems that Anonymous is already moving to do just that:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_9T1SPJXRI" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_9T1SPJXRI</a>