Ummm, have these numbnuts never heard of a VPN?
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.
They didn’t even hear why this failed the first time.
why did it fail?
If they are trying at great leghth to block IPs associated with piracy, it isn’t that much harder to get known VPN IPs blocked too especially when they could use the ‘why won’t someone think of the children’ card and claim VPNs are solely used for CSAM and drug markets.
The smart move would be to skip VPNs and move over to I2P. For those who don’t know I2P is kinda like if tor and torrents had a baby that was a VPN on crack. Unlike a VPN where your traffic is encrypted and sent to one centralized server, I2P encrypts and routes your data through multiple servers and unlike tor every client by default is a node that data can be routed through.
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.
for everytime Movie Industry tells ISP to block pirates, there is more smart pirates who can find away around the block!
That’s fine. They don’t care about a few really good pirates, they care about many low tech pirates.
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The music industry adapted for the most part.
The movie industry is hanging on by fingernails.
When will they learn?
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.”Ah yes. Theatre-going. The favorite pastime of Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z since the invention of streaming.
/s
Hopefully this doesn’t affect quad9 or cloud flare DNS, or I might have to go back to running a root resolver. The horrors.
Awww, was the abuse from the DMCA not enough for them?
I demand I2P become the standard for filesharing. We don’t all get what we want.
Anti Commercial AI thingy
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