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Tillis Releases Text of Bipartisan Legislation to Fight Illegal Streaming

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Re: Tillis Releases Text of Bipartisan Legislation to Fight Illegal Streaming

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Post by quickthrowman »

snvzz wrote: post #2

At this rate, soon, non explicitly authorized copying will be punishable by death. Streaming a felony? Madness.

> The Protecting Lawful Streaming Act would apply only to commercial, for-profit streaming piracy services. The law will not sweep in normal practices by online service providers, good faith business disputes, noncommercial activities, or in any way impact individuals who access pirated streams or unwittingly stream unauthorized copies of copyrighted works. Individuals who might use pirate streaming services will not be affected.

Re: Tillis Releases Text of Bipartisan Legislation to Fight Illegal Streaming

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Post by redflame8 »

moocowtruck wrote: post #4
underseacables wrote: post #3

Good thing there is TOR.

part of my job is to monitor tor and find people from using it, easier than you'd think.. so i wouldn't bankshot on that alone

Get a new job. If it were as easy as you say it is, why is thepiratebay still around?

Re: Tillis Releases Text of Bipartisan Legislation to Fight Illegal Streaming

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Post by breck »

fumar wrote: post #13

If the United States’ populace elects its officials, why do the representatives act against the populace’s wishes? Is this typical of all governments with elected representation? Are they solving different organizational problems that most people are not aware of? I am curious how such a system arises, maintains itself, and is resilient to change.

I think a big part is the growth in complexity of the "source code" has allowed special interests to thrive in a discrete way.

But I think the biggest problem is centralization of media control.

Copyright allows the media to be controlled by tiny fraction Control the media and it becomes a lot easier to get away with lying.

We need to #AbolishCopyright

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Post by madamelic »

fumar wrote: post #13

If the United States’ populace elects its officials, why do the representatives act against the populace’s wishes? Is this typical of all governments with elected representation? Are they solving different organizational problems that most people are not aware of? I am curious how such a system arises, maintains itself, and is resilient to change.

>If the USA populace elects its officials, why do the representatives act against the populace’s wishes?

Here is the basic flow:

- Get elected by lying to voters and/or suppressing the vote

- Use power to choose your own voters / write laws to suppress voters who are against you

- Repeat

So in effect, many elected officials can safely ignore constiuent's wishes because either: not enough can / will vote against you or you can use your power to make sure they can't vote against you.

Then you have the issue of politicians being given bribes... I mean... lobbying money to do what corporations want.

Re: Tillis Releases Text of Bipartisan Legislation to Fight Illegal Streaming

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Post by rusk »

fumar wrote: post #13

If the United States’ populace elects its officials, why do the representatives act against the populace’s wishes? Is this typical of all governments with elected representation? Are they solving different organizational problems that most people are not aware of? I am curious how such a system arises, maintains itself, and is resilient to change.

See Brexit

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Post by nickthemagicman »

Is this just lip service to entertainment industry lobbying? I mean how will this be enforced?

Most torrent sites are based overseas, people can just use VPN to torrent.

Even if they ban the DNS record, you can get the IP address, from a reddit forum or something.

If ISP's start to ban I.P.'s then the internet is truly broken at that point.

Doesn't seem practical.

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Post by nyxtom »

fumar wrote: post #13

If the United States’ populace elects its officials, why do the representatives act against the populace’s wishes? Is this typical of all governments with elected representation? Are they solving different organizational problems that most people are not aware of? I am curious how such a system arises, maintains itself, and is resilient to change.

We do elect our officials, but the way legislation gets pushed through is typically lobbied by special interests. In some cases the laws themselves are written by those same special interests rather than written by the legislative bodies.

https://publicintegrity.org/politics/state-politics/copy-pas...

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Post by eternalban »

fumar wrote: post #13

If the United States’ populace elects its officials, why do the representatives act against the populace’s wishes? Is this typical of all governments with elected representation? Are they solving different organizational problems that most people are not aware of? I am curious how such a system arises, maintains itself, and is resilient to change.

Start with the glorious revolution in UK, and the rise of mercantile corporations (East-India et al.) and licensed /sanctioned cooperatives (such as the original colonies), throw in a pinch of Puritan economic ethics and morality, and finally let it simmer in a pot stamped with “corporations are legal persons”.
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