The Motion Picture Association will work with Congress to start blocking piracy sites in the US

What else will corporations pay Congress to decide that is in corporations' best interest for us to not see?

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.

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 The only reason why the US isn't one of them, he continued, is the "lack of political will, paired with outdated understandings of what site-blocking actually is, how it functions, and who it affects."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.

VPNs are about to become a lot more commonplace.

land of the free

Very common amerika L

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.

Our firewall: Good and just

"Great Firewall of China": Bad and scary

A bunch of old white guys who literally don't understand the internet vs. the entire internet. Okie doke.

We will need to use hidden networks like !i2p@lemmy.world

Judging by the fact that most of congress doesn’t know how TikTok or WiFi work, I’m guessing it’s gonna be fine.

land of the fee home of the grave

Ill say it one more time: Selfhost your shit

and I'm sure they're paying them lots of money to do it because God forbid the rich assholes aren't rich enough 🙄

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.

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.

We'll make new sites! Fuckers.

How about fighting the reason why those sites exist in the first place?

Am I gonna have to pay for a vpn that actually lets me fake being outside the ‘states? I usually self host on a VM host to avoid incurring expenses, but it seems like that’s not really an option here. Seems like I might have to go for a AWS instance running PiVPN or something.

Innocence is no protection

Truth is no defense.

You don't own shit til you steal it.

Reminder: The pirates won the last time they tried this crap.

Out of country DNS servers would probably completely circumvent this.

lmao good fucking luck

average us congressman is just the boomer version of some reddit nerd bitching and moaning about how not giving a corporation a few dollars is basically the same as killing a baby

FREEDOM!

and I'm sure they're paying them lots of money to do it because God forbid the rich assholes aren't rich enough 🙄

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