- n1ckn4m3 ( @n1ckn4m3@kbin.social ) 135•6 months ago
Instead of working to create a cost effective, quick method for users to buy (AND OWN, NOT LICENSE) digital movies, the MPAA is instead going to try and censor the internet. Brilliant move, idiots.
- melpomenesclevage ( @melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee ) English18•6 months ago
own
There is nothing they want us to do less.
- Uriel238 [all pronouns] ( @uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English16•6 months ago
They’re spoiled from selling you the same movies over and over again whenever a new medium becomes normalized, despite all your previous licenses. Then they complain when your media breaks or you want to share with your best friend.
They want your money for not doing anything new.
- melpomenesclevage ( @melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee ) English4•6 months ago
So, what youre describing is thieves, but not cool?
- Queen HawlSera ( @HawlSera@lemm.ee ) English6•6 months ago
Remember SOPA?
- Kumatomic ( @kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English117•6 months ago
What else will corporations pay Congress to decide that is in corporations’ best interest for us to not see?
- Drewski ( @Drewski@lemmy.sdf.org ) English69•6 months ago
He [MPAA CEO Charles Rivkin] added that almost 60 countries use site-blocking as a tool against piracy, “including leading democracies and many of America’s closest allies.” The only reason why the US isn’t one of them, he continued, is the “lack of political will, paired with outdated understandings of what site-blocking actually is, how it functions, and who it affects.”
No, you’re the one who doesn’t understand. We don’t want censorship, and we have this thing called the 1st Amendment.
- TassieTosser ( @TassieTosser@aussie.zone ) English16•6 months ago
Australia’s version is a dns block. It only stops people who don’t know how to google or change thier dns.
- Kit ( @Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English67•6 months ago
VPNs are about to become a lot more commonplace.
- BolexForSoup ( @BolexForSoup@kbin.social ) 47•6 months ago
the growth has already been staggering since states starting requiring ID’s for pornhub. I’m glad tech literacy is increasing in the face of these recurring laws. Small silver lining I can latch on to lol
- theneverfox ( @theneverfox@pawb.social ) English5•6 months ago
It’s almost like John Oliver’s NSA street campaign. No one cared until he started talking about how the NSA was cause inappropriately “handling” dick pics
They’re half the way there. One does not simply turn off the porn. People will go through great lengths to see nudes
Now we just have to make them understand that their porn history is being collected along with their legal identity. Hackers will get it before long, and if the government doesn’t have it already, it’s just a matter of time
The violation we’ve felt having all of our movements and habits tracked is apparently only felt by the masses when their junk is analyzed. Which I find weird, but hey, whatever makes people realize privacy isn’t something to shrug off
- DoucheBagMcSwag ( @DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English24•6 months ago
Or that will be their first target
- Coasting0942 ( @Coasting0942@reddthat.com ) English40•6 months ago
I2P stumbles out of bar drunk, my timesss has come!
- Danterious ( @Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•6 months ago
Is it possible to access clearnet sites on I2P? (I haven’t used it before but I have heard of it.)
- Coasting0942 ( @Coasting0942@reddthat.com ) English4•6 months ago
Theoretically possible but definitely not built for it.
Tor serves the clear net access problem.
I2P because of its design is a lot better suited for p2p file transfers, while maintaining anonymity.
- Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼 ( @Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•6 months ago
Yes, check out outproxies
- Telorand ( @Telorand@reddthat.com ) English11•6 months ago
Not an easy target, since the technology/protocol is integral to many large businesses’ infosec operations.
- DoucheBagMcSwag ( @DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English6•6 months ago
You don’t have to ban VPNs. Just force everyone doing business in the US to keep logs and to comply with blocking websites via federal law (that will be dictated by the MPAA)
Boom. VPNs “banned”
- Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼 ( @Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•6 months ago
Just use a foreign VPN (basically all trustworthy, privacy-focused VPN providers are located outside the US, e.g. Mullvad in Sweden, IVPN in Gibraltar or Proton VPN in Switzerland) and connect to an exit server outside the US
- Telorand ( @Telorand@reddthat.com ) English2•6 months ago
I mean, that’s not out of the realm of possibility of things going down that way, but good luck getting that passed and then enforcing that, especially internationally.
Also, I have to wonder if there’s an argument to be made about undue burden. But NAL, so dunno.
- DoucheBagMcSwag ( @DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•6 months ago
Well…any VPN provider that won’t comply would be blocked from doing business in the US.
- far_university1990 ( @far_university1990@feddit.de ) English3•6 months ago
Which you can bypass… with a vpn. Self fulfilling market offer.
- RobotToaster ( @RobotToaster@mander.xyz ) English60•6 months ago
land of the free
- seathru ( @seathru@lemmy.sdf.org ) English39•6 months ago
Whoever told you that is your enemy
- pbjamm ( @pbjamm@beehaw.org ) English12•6 months ago
When that song came out it hit 19yr old me HARD. I am now 51 and it still does.
- Petter1 ( @Petter1@lemm.ee ) English16•6 months ago
Land of the free market not free people 🤓
- ililiililiililiilili ( @ililiililiililiilili@lemm.ee ) English22•6 months ago
Its not even a free market. Check the protectionism keeping Chinese EVs out of the US. Its more like the land of corporate profits.
- CmdrShepard42 ( @CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ) English11•6 months ago
There’s no such thing as a free market unless you’re talking about places like Somolia where there is no government.
- Telorand ( @Telorand@reddthat.com ) English6•6 months ago
Free Market is to economics what The American Dream is to immigrants and citizens.
Reality inevitably shines a harsh light on both.
- callouscomic ( @callouscomic@lemm.ee ) English53•6 months ago
The least productive Congress since the Great Depression? The same Congress who couldn’t pass a budget for the government until 6 months into the very fiscal year it’s for? That Congress? Priorities.
- aphonefriend ( @aphonefriend@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English8•6 months ago
What are you talking about? The current congress is incredibly effective. They just have way more important things to focus on then whatever you peasants are yammering about. Like banning tiktok.
- ivanafterall ( @ivanafterall@kbin.social ) 47•6 months ago
A bunch of old white guys who literally don’t understand the internet vs. the entire internet. Okie doke.
- RobotToaster ( @RobotToaster@mander.xyz ) English16•6 months ago
The c-suite of the MPAA is surprisingly… diverse https://www.motionpictures.org/who-we-are/our-people/
The only colour the bourgeoisie care about is green.
- Arcturus ( @Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English42•6 months ago
Very common amerika L
- ɐɥO ( @Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz ) English33•6 months ago
Ill say it one more time: Selfhost your shit
- Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼 ( @Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English32•6 months ago
We will need to use hidden networks like !i2p@lemmy.world
- K0W4L5K1 ( @K0W4LSK1@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English14•6 months ago
Maybe this will get i2p out of beta…
- Pixel ( @pixel@pawb.social ) English4•6 months ago
wait can you explain what this is/how it works? I’ve never heard of it before
- golden_zealot ( @golden_zealot@lemmy.ml ) English11•6 months ago
Sure, i2p or the invisible internet project is a FOSS project which acts as an anonymous network anyone can potentially access, and host on.
It does this by creating end to end encrypted peer to peer tunnels between its users and then sending data through itself via a path between some of the 50,000+ volunteers that make up the project. The path data takes is random so a third party seeing any communication in full is highly unlikely, and even at that, its still encrypted.
The software that implements this is the i2p router, and when using the i2p router you become a node on the network like everyone else using it, allowing pieces of anyone’s data to move through your router, just as your data moves through theirs.
The UX/UI is very good for new users and makes it easy to access, or host. Particularly, to my understanding, i2p is also very popular for torrenting due to the nature of how it works (in comparison to similar projects such as tor, there is an entire built in solution for torrenting included with i2p).
- Pixel ( @pixel@pawb.social ) English2•6 months ago
thank you! do you have any resources for someone new to using i2p?
- Garry ( @Garry@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•6 months ago
Isn’t this similar to tor, and slow af??
- golden_zealot ( @golden_zealot@lemmy.ml ) English3•6 months ago
Similar in some ways different in others, actually surprisingly fast for what it does though and I find the user experience a lot nicer than tor.
- chalk46 ( @chalk46@fedia.io ) 28•6 months ago
and I’m sure they’re paying them lots of money to do it because God forbid the rich assholes aren’t rich enough 🙄
- retrieval4558 ( @retrieval4558@mander.xyz ) English17•6 months ago
Just hoping private torrent sites and Usenet remain relatively unscathed. Honestly I’m surprised about how many of the big private trackers have lasted so long.
- Riven ( @Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English22•6 months ago
They’re not smart enough it figure out anything not mainstream. I heard most of the big sites blocked recently were live TV feed sites.
- snownyte ( @snownyte@kbin.social ) 16•6 months ago
Curious, I checked out Chris Dodd and wonder what he’s up to. He’s a close advisor now to Biden so I’d imagine he’s whispering in Biden’s ear and whoever will listen, about how much of piracy is ‘bad for ya’. In case anyone forgot, Chris Dodd was a major asshole during his 6 year stint (2011 - 2017) with MPAA and he ultimately failed in stopping piracy.
I don’t think this latest tactic will work. Congress couldn’t even understand Facebook and they couldn’t even hold Mark Zuckerberg of all people, accountable for his shit. Congress, MPAA and all the forces in the world couldn’t stop Kim Dotcom. MPAA, ACE and whatever, still cannot shut down The Pirate Bay.
They’ll just keep bashing their heads on the brick wall. The only victories they’ve gotten in all of the 20+ year decade war on piracy, is that most times, the sites go down because of lack of funding and support. They only take down big sites because they’ve found weak links or they’ve found those run-a-mouth pirates who’ve gotta go around talking shit about pirating to the point where they’re a liability then wonder why their favorite service/site is shut down.
- Jimmybander ( @card797@champserver.net ) English15•6 months ago
We’ll make new sites! Fuckers.
- Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼 ( @Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English10•6 months ago
Or hide our sites on hidden networks like !i2p@lemmy.world
- gamermanh ( @gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•6 months ago
Hiding on .world, the last place any sane person would look, genius
- DAMunzy ( @DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•6 months ago
Mirrored on hexbear
- melpomenesclevage ( @melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee ) English12•6 months ago
Innocence is no protection
Truth is no defense.
You don’t own shit til you steal it.