Cool. Now all of Google Drive is blocked because one guy hosted a movie there for a few days.
All it would take is someone getting AWS blacklisted for an hour, that law would disappear like it never existed.
Hahahahaha
Unintended consequences - what are they going to do once 90% of connections are encrypted, include use of VPNs and encrypted DNS?
This is what they’re promoting.
Host your own encrypted DNS on a VPS in a non-compliant location, use a VPN to connect to it.
So many ways these idiots are cutting their own throats.
Also, let’s list the companies rather than say “Movie Industry”. Or let that be a link to a Wiki article listing all the companies and their holdings.
Fuck em all at this point. I go to maybe 2 movies a year, at most. And I’m cutting subscription services, down to 2 at this point.
As a guy from Russia, I must admit that vpns are not a big problem for censors. They can be easily blocked, including self-hosted ones by protocol detection. And DNS would not do much with IP and clienthello-based blocks. And most users are not enough tech-savvy to constantly switch to new protocols as old ones get blocked.
You have no rights in Russia.
VPNs can’t be categorically banned in the US without major first amendment issues. It’s not a huge technical issue, but unless the courts just throw out the Constitution (a risk that we’re seeing too much of, but still a meaningful bar to cross), there are huge legal barriers to doing so.
Your government doesn’t need to care about legal barriers because you have a dictator who can act unilaterally.
We are just a little behind trying to elect our new dictator…
But just for a day…
/S 🙄
VPNs are not categorically banned in Russia either. Just 95% of them. Categorical ban is not actually required here. Government can just create licensing procedure and license only those VPNs, which follow “rules”. I do not see how this is different from ISP bans.
CBaaS
Censorship Bypass as a Service, where your new updates are your [unique user ID].com
Let us manage your bypass for you! Payable in crypto or cash.
Piracy does not hurt revenue and, in fact, may actually help it:
https://www.engadget.com/2017-09-22-eu-suppressed-study-piracy-no-sales-impact.html
I have found and become a big fan of tv shows that I would have never had the chance to see because of piracy, one of my favourite shows ‘Corner Gas’ never once aired in my home country. Thank you piracy for helping me find good entertainment.
Never thought a single non-canadian would have even heard of Corner Gas lol
I absolutely love it, it’s the perfect show in my opinion, I’m so glad I stumbled across it.
I was sold on it by the first episode entirely because of Oscar, he kills me with every line.
“It wasn’t willy-nilly… it was at crows.”
Legally guaranteed corporate profits, with enforcement funded by taxpayers.
We should abolish this practice.
Yeah. This is socialism… if there’s one group that hates socialism. Meh. We know they support this.
The parasites that keep the money aren’t the “movie industry”, the people who actually work to make the movies are.
“you don’t get any residuals because the movie is still in the red decades later”
Mmm Hollywood Accounting… Misappropriate my residuals harder daddy!! 💦💦💦
an industry which throws away finished movies because they don’t want to spend the money to release it?
yeah nah, you’re disqualified from an opinion on piracy.
Justice for Coyote Vs. ACME
Yeah! Like, just because you make something, doesn’t mean you get to decide what to do with it.
I still don’t understand why they keep going after piracy when it is a symptom of the bigger problem. Movies today are expensive and often made inaccessible through BS digital services that periodically just make films and TV unavailable to save server space or avoid paying for licensing.
I would guess that the vast majority of people are not pirating content. I’d also guess that if digital providers and studios would actually try to change the distribution model that allows customers to buy content that is later turned off on a whim, they would see meaningful change in piracy activity.
Because piracy is the boogieman that allows them to wrestle more power and profit from everyone around them like the parasites they are. They want a cut every time anyone ever watches something, ever. And they want to control if you even have the option of what to watch.
Once Neuralink’s installed adn they start selling off our thoughts to information collection bureaus, they’re gonna want us to pay a license for everytime we think about someting not in the public domain
Because it’s easier for them to blame others than admit they fucked up
The movie industry can’t bother to provide and preserve the movies they make, they should shut the fuck up.
Still waiting to see Dogma on Blu-ray…
Why?
To get a better look at Buddy Christ, of course.
Snoochi-boochis
I would propose a law that states " All companies must keep their data away from the Internet. If the data ends up in the Internet then it’s up for grabs by anyone"
They can go F themselves
Half a year later, additional categories are added for CSAM. And another year later for illegal copies and cracks. All the while some states openly missuse it against porn and abortion. We know that game already!
But did you even think of the children?
Sounds like you just want to hurt those precious little ones.
How dare you!!! /s
Anyone have a list of legislators who are also investors in VPN companies?
If it’s that big a deal go after the service providers for the servers, this type of shit just makes inhibiting free speech easier.
If I don’t want people using Truth Social I guess making a bunch of accounts to share torrent links would be enough to shut it down?
The MPAA still has never been able to demonstrate that privacy even has actual impacts on movie and ticket sales… When Netflix was super convenient and had a lot of content piracy went down. Turns out splitting to dozens of streaming services made it difficult enough that people just went back to sailing the high seas. So lower your prices, make it more convenient to pay for services and people will just do that instead.
They tried going after the servers and owners and found it impossible to defeat all the piracy sites. There are too many sites scattered across too many jurisdictions and new ones are created too easily. Instead, they want ISPs to do the work for them. When the ISPs fail the MPAA can sue them and make more money.
Yeah, well they should keep it up. If they can prove in a US court that a “website is bad” they can make the same argument in the jurisdiction the website is hosted in, the Internet is great because it’s not (mostly) stuck under a single country’s thumb
The MPAA still has never been able to demonstrate that privacy even has actual impacts on movie and ticket sales…
It does. If everyone paid for tickets in cash and never online, they wouldn’t be able to harvest user data.
Fuck em
USDoJ: How about no.
Oh, right. This isn’t 1992 when the DoJ had balls and a constitution.
