Thank God our government will always put in effort to stop the poor from potentially affecting the oligarchs bottom line.
It’s totally fine that antitrust is long dead though. The rogers merger is fine, and $70 insufficient funds charge is totally ethical and fine, etc.
It’s totally fine that the priority is so blatantly skewed towards the people who already own everything and want to ensure everyone else has no choice but to exist in their proprietary rent seeking environments, etc.
American companies and politicians are pushing Alberta separatist propaganda, but lucky our government is focused on making American companies especially comfortable like always.
Everything is totally fine.
Even just looking at internet policy, it’s clear the Canadian government isn’t working for the benefit of ordinary Canadians. They have Bill C-22, which potentially undermines privacy by compromising encryption, enhances surveillance through mandatory metadata retention, and could make it hard for anyone but large corporations to legally run online services in Canada. They have Bill C-34, which introduces a new commission with the power to censor and control what Canadians can access on the internet, and requires Canadians to hand over government-issued ID to access websites and online services, potentially to third parties run from the USA. And the Canadian government continues to increase intelligence sharing with the USA despite the USA clearly being hostile and a threat to Canada. Whoever they’re governing for, it’s not us.
Theyre worried about me pirating content that I would otherwise pay to Netflix?
They can fuck right off
this won’t work. these “sites” change domains on the regular because they have to. torrent sites also don’t appear to be mentioned, hell the Pirate Bay still exists (literally just used it 30min ago to get the new episode of X-Men '97) and how many times has that been “killed”. jellyfin servers (for example) also circumvent this. command line alternatives also. and obviously VPNs. get a euro based VPN and you’re good to go.
I’ve been on the internet and pirating crap since the 90s…nothing is ever truly gone, just a new method to obtain it.
The goal isn’t necessarily to outright prevent piracy (but obviously they would if they could). But, by keeping such sites constantly changing it prevents sites from gaining notoriety and keeps people who aren’t very tech savvy (the majority) away from torrenting. They may get a site they can trust from a friend, but when that site goes down in a month the hope is they just give up. The faster the churn the more normie users can be kept away from piracy.
Jellyfin is pretty great, but still requires the user be on somewhat close terms with someone tech savvy. Torrenting more generally has the (false) perception of being very risky. It’s not about stopping people in the know, we aren’t good consumers anyway, it’s about stopping tech illiterate people.
Don’t waste your time going and manually getting torrents get the *arr stack. I used to be big against the whole idea of pirating but the boycott the us movement started and I jumped back in to the high seas. First I was trying to learn python to write my own scripts to get torrents to download things, I failed missurabrly! But than I found Sonarr and its related apps.
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