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Agreed, these backronym bill names are obnoxious at best.
I used to think so, but now I think they're just intended to make it easy to refer to the bill in a context people can recall quickly.
> "Block Bad Electronic Art and Recording Distributors Act of 2025” (Block BEARD) I really wish destitutely uncreative people would stop pretending to be clever.
> Electronic Art
I actually think it's pretty clever that the lawyers who wrote the bill managed to (almost) put their employer's name in it.
I've recently switched to privacy respecting computing options, so of course lost access to everything I've bought from Apple and Amazon for the last 20 years. If I never paid for content again they'd still be in my debt. You wouldn't steal a car would you? No, but I'd repossess one from some delinquent son of a bitch in a suit.
I see no strong moral argument against ripping DVDs (from the library or similar) of content you paid for on Apple or Amazon.
There's a civil/economic argument: arguably copyright/intellectual property make for stronger societies that produce better stuff for everybody.
But there's nothing immoral about copying or watching something you came across. The author isn't injured by it- nobody is. Except, like I said, perhaps society in general.
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You can’t find them to rent on iTunes and similar platforms?
Who wants to rent? I have money, give me a file for money. DRM is laughable anyway, if you give me the data I have the file if I really want it. Let me, the consumer, legally purchase a high res copy of media I can own. Why is this so hard?
I've been trying to watch old 80s-90s movies recently. I'm happy to pay $5 or whatever, and they just aren't available anywhere. Rental stores are dead, so I can't go rent them from blockbuster or whatever, and streaming sites have splintered to the point I'm not even sure what is a scam and what is a legitimate business anymore. Trying to even find availability of what films exist on which streaming sites has been a…
> Block BEARD does not mention VPNs, but its broad definition of “service provider” could be interpreted to include them. The prospect of all VPN providers being required to block pirate sites, or being unable to operate in the US, is very scary indeed
Piracy, eh? So copied without approval. Like archive.is or other news aggregator and paywall-bypass sites. Or, just needs 1 falsely filed DMCA to ban. And whoops, made a mistake, and no process to unban. By sneaking in with 'piracy', they're setting the stage to block any content they don't like.
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I used to think so, but now I think they're just intended to make it easy to refer to the bill in a context people can recall quickly.
The ones that really stick in my craw are the 1984-esque ones like the PATRIOT act.
I've recently switched to privacy respecting computing options, so of course lost access to everything I've bought from Apple and Amazon for the last 20 years. If I never paid for content again they'd still be in my debt. You wouldn't steal a car would you? No, but I'd repossess one from some delinquent son of a bitch in a suit.
I see no strong moral argument against ripping DVDs (from the library or similar) of content you paid for on Apple or Amazon.
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The Great Firewall of China is a censorship program. This proposed US legislation puts the power of blocking under the authority of its court system and only in the domain of copyright law. The courts are historically very concerned with upholding 1st Amendment rights to a degree that often (but not always) surpasses analogous rights in many sister liberal democracies. Anything that remotely smells of censorship woul…
This is a censorship program. Every time a system that allows for internet content to be blocked is created, it's extended, misused and abused shortly thereafter. "The tools already exist, why don't we use them to fight terrorists/pirates/cybercriminals/gays/undesirables too". The slope isn't just slippery - it's made of Teflon and coated with baby oil.
Does that included movie leak?
like this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2025/07/28/legal-acti...
I'm pretty sure the movie isn't intended to be put on the internet or be part of internet content.
They don't rob media sales; they secure media legacies. They're hoarders, not consumers.