Ummm, have these numbnuts never heard of a VPN?
They didn’t even hear why this failed the first time.
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They want to make VPNs illegal too.
VPN is very available but this would probably still stop the majority. It’s like locks: it won’t keep everyone out, just enough not to try.
We’ve done this dance already.
- Bully everyone and pass restrictive laws yields more piracy than ever, and a good crop of mentors for future pirates.
- Build quality streaming services with excellent selection of media, and the piracy community shrinks. (Sad, when it happens, because there’s evidence that wide-coverage digital media preservation is nearly impossible without the piracy community.)
It’s almost like the Movie Industry doesn’t care about any of the things they claim they care about…
Edit: I guess it’s possible they’re playing out a long con to ensure their favorite episodes of “I Love Lucy” survive…
Edit 2: No, I don’t really think they’re somehow secretly not the assholes they appear to be.
Time to invest in some foreign VPNs.
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It ““worked”” in France
It still kills most of the userbase when they do it
Normal people don’t know what a fucking dns is
You end up with 10 more new sites and a drop in quality and an endless game of cat & mouse
It really depends on how much people want to get around it. I grew up in Vietnam, where when I was in about year 10 of high school, the government decided to start blocking Facebook. Their block was only DNS, so word quickly spread around the school that you could still access Facebook if you changed your DNS. This was before quad 9 or even Google’s quad 8 (the latter came around shortly after, which was a big improvement to how easy this became), so the DNS we ended up using was a difficult specific number to remember and communicate, but even despite that, by the end of the month pretty much everyone in school—from students to teachers—had learnt how to change their DNS to bypass the block.
People always say that piracy is more popular when it’s easier than the legal means. And obviously adding a DNS block to pirating is going to increase its difficulty, and increase the relative convenience of legal means. But if the legal means continues getting worse and worse, at some point piracy is going to look more appealing again, and people will figure out how to bypass the DNS block.
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A site-blocking law would let copyright owners “request, in court, that Internet service providers block access to websites dedicated to sharing illegal, stolen content,” he said. Rivkin claimed that in the US, piracy “steals hundreds of thousands of jobs from workers and tens of billions of dollars from
our economyrich people’s yacht money, including more than one billion in theatrical ticket sales.”Ah yes. Theatre-going. The favorite pastime of Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z since the invention of streaming.
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Awww, was the abuse from the DMCA not enough for them?
If they take my piracy away I will have no choice but to become an anarchist.
I demand I2P become the standard for filesharing. We don’t all get what we want.
Anti Commercial AI thingy
Inserted with a keystroke running this script on linux with X11
#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell #!nix-shell -i bash --packages xautomation xclip sleep 0.2 (echo '::: spoiler Anti Commercial AI thingy [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) Inserted with a keystroke running this script on linux with X11 ```bash' cat "$0" echo '``` :::') | xclip -selection clipboard xte "keydown Control_L" "key V" "keyup Control_L"Hopefully this doesn’t affect quad9 or cloud flare DNS, or I might have to go back to running a root resolver. The horrors.
Do you know if cloudflare is privacy respecting? I know quad9 certainly is
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I trust them more than my ISP (Verizon). Quad9 is, and I used it for some time as an upstream, but it is markedly slower for me than cloudflare. Those milliseconds add up for an impatient asshole like myself.
for everytime Movie Industry tells ISP to block pirates, there is more smart pirates who can find away around the block!
