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U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD"

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Re: U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD"

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Post by hellojesus »

tracker1 wrote: post #15

Wonder if having your own DNS resolver will work around the issue... I mean, the caching from cloudflare/google-dns is nice, but I'm fine if 1/8 of my dns lookups has to make the full cycle through domain resolvers.

Won't they just instruct isps to block the ip addresses of the sites and bully cloudflare into dropping them so they can't hide behind their proxies?

It'll be a cat and mouse game, and tor could easily mitigate blocking efforts.

But this seems like a 1A violation to me.

Re: U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD"

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Post by sybercecurity »

tracker1 wrote: post #15

Wonder if having your own DNS resolver will work around the issue... I mean, the caching from cloudflare/google-dns is nice, but I'm fine if 1/8 of my dns lookups has to make the full cycle through domain resolvers.

I haven't seen the text of the bill, so don't know for sure. If it says "resolvers must block site" then yes, running your own resolver would still work. If it says "domain registries must remove delegation" then it won't, but that could only be enforced for registries that are based in the US. Unless your ISP blocks well-known DNS ports, which none due as far as I've found.

The article says one of the requirements for the complaint needs to be that the site to be blocked must be found to be foreign based, so I guess the assumption is that the current set of laws to take down the site or sue are unavailable.

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Post by hooverd »

monksy wrote: post #12
hooverd wrote: post #10

Ah, I'm so glad we can be bipartisan when it comes to making things worse.

Can we get a list of senators who support this and their party affiliation?

Thom Tillis - R Chris Coons - D Marsha Blackburn - R Adam Schiff - D

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Post by ryandrake »

Isn't torrenting way down from its heyday? Streaming companies are not perfect, but I always thought they were at least moderately successful such that in 2025, average, casual, non-techies no longer bother to jump through the VPN and private tracker hoops just to download a movie.

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Post by blackjack_ »

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 an absolute pain. There are theoretical catalogue sites, but they are all randomly out of date to the point that its not very useful.

I'm literally at the point where its looking like pirating the movies is the only way to watch them...

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