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- movies@kbin.social
- piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- technology@lemmy.zip
- CaptObvious ( @CaptObvious@literature.cafe ) English67•3 months ago
Ummm, have these numbnuts never heard of a VPN?
They didn’t even hear why this failed the first time.
- umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) English7•3 months ago
why did it fail?
- nxdefiant ( @nxdefiant@startrek.website ) English26•3 months ago
- Toribor ( @Toribor@corndog.social ) English28•3 months ago
They want to make VPNs illegal too.
- Neato ( @Neato@ttrpg.network ) English12•3 months ago
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.
- MajorHavoc ( @MajorHavoc@programming.dev ) English57•3 months ago
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.
- randomaside ( @randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•3 months ago
Time to invest in some foreign VPNs.
- Spendrill ( @Spendrill@lemm.ee ) English17•3 months ago
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.”- Telorand ( @Telorand@reddthat.com ) English28•3 months ago
Ah yes. Theatre-going. The favorite pastime of Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z since the invention of streaming.
/s
- snooggums ( @snooggums@midwest.social ) English16•3 months ago
Awww, was the abuse from the DMCA not enough for them?
- onlinepersona ( @onlinepersona@programming.dev ) English14•3 months ago
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"
- Blackout ( @Blackout@kbin.run ) 14•3 months ago
If they take my piracy away I will have no choice but to become an anarchist.
- amigan ( @theamigan@lemmy.dynatron.me ) English10•3 months ago
Hopefully this doesn’t affect quad9 or cloud flare DNS, or I might have to go back to running a root resolver. The horrors.
- safesyrup ( @safesyrup@lemmy.hogru.ch ) English4•3 months ago
Do you know if cloudflare is privacy respecting? I know quad9 certainly is
- umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) English5•3 months ago
is it though? what makes it trustworthy?
- amigan ( @theamigan@lemmy.dynatron.me ) English2•3 months ago
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.