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

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Post by const_cast »

blackjack_ wrote: post #30

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…

> streaming sites have splintered to the point I'm not even sure what is a scam and what is a legitimate business anymore

They're all scams, of varying levels of scammyness ;P

No but seriously, the pricing is intentional deceptive and a lot of werives won't offer ad free viewing, no matter how much you pay. They'll also weasel around it with "most media won't have ads, but some will". Thanks, how helpful. Paramount plus apparently doesn't consider ads for itself to be ads - so on the ad free plan, you still get ads for Paramount.

But the worst part is that every app is different and some are really, really poor quality. You'd think we would just invent an API for this and then have one viewer, like we had for TV. But then again, maybe nobody wants to reinvent TV.

Also, blocking VPNs: if I'm logged in and you know my real country and I'm paying, you don't need to block VPNs. It doesn't do anything but annoy customers

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Post by nickthegreek »

llbbdd wrote: post #242
nickthegreek wrote: post #151

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Plex does this as well.

Too much. I love Plex but it's increasingly hard to avoid the search integrations and other non-local features. I recently set up access to my library across a few devices and it's disappointing how hostile it now feels to turn off a lot of stuff that should not be enabled by default just to get to my own files.

agreed. at least there are still toggles to disable most of it. especially considering i paid for a lifetime membership. i’ve tried enby and jellyfin though and they just aren’t up to snuff yet for me needs. but i need to put my money where my mouth is and toss jellyfin a donation.

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Post by _boffin_ »

Henchman21 wrote: post #185
sybercecurity wrote: post #23

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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 f…

So is this an opening move with an end goal of “private national internets”? Fracturing the international nature of the ‘net seems like every power worldwide would like and benefit from this.

If that is need the end goal, which would make sense, disgusting.

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Post by jajuuka »

DaSHacka wrote: post #184
IshKebab wrote: post #171

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What are the names of these immoral piracy applications, so that I can know to avoid them if I happen to stumble upon one?

Plex/Jellyfin for streaming, the *arr suite for cataloging/downloading [0] [0] https://wiki.servarr.com/

It's so nice to have all my legal media backups cataloged and organized and easily viewable. My server isn't powerful enough for 4k HDR though so I need to upgrade it.

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Post by jajuuka »

supertrope wrote: post #136
cvoss wrote: post #54

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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…

YouTube's copyright strikes create a chilling effect. Google takes the easy way out in tuning their system to minimize false negatives at the cost of lots of false positives. This minimizes their liability under the DMCA and minimizes cost but allows lots of abuse by those claiming to hold copyright.

Not to mention the monetization restrictions on Youtube and Twitch. Those who rely on it play a game of whack a mole where they upload a video, it's get flagged, they edit, try again. It makes talking about new or serious situations like gun violence of Epstein very difficult unless you're willing to forgo any ad revenue.

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Post by jajuuka »

Between this, new requirements to verify age and locking down of mobile devices it feels like digital freedom is really under attack. For all the decades of the west mocking the great firewall of china, it's sad to see them turn about and enact it themselves.

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Post by brookst »

thejazzman wrote: post #240
jasode wrote: post #156

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>To my knowledge, a radio station or music streaming service doesn't have to negotiate with the record label to play a given song, they just have to pay a small royalty as defined by law. The copyright holders can legally prevent their recordings from being streamed by Spotify. Famous examples were Taylor Swift and Neil Young withholding their music from Spotify. For extra nuance, copyright holders can't stop cover s…

Swift withheld from Apple Music because they were giving it away for free and not paying her (or anyone); I don't recall it being kept off spotify?

Source for the Apple Music claim?

Here's info about how and why Swift pulled her music from Spotif: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/taylor-swift-yanks-music-s...

Perhaps you'd mixed the two up?

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Post by int_19h »

rkomorn wrote: post #247
int_19h wrote: post #196

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They're intended to be propaganda soundbites . The point is that people use them to refer to the bill because it's much easier than using the full title or describing what the bill actually does, and in doing so, they inadvertently propagate a specific perspective on the nature of the bill. "PATRIOT" act etc are good examples.

Agreed but at the same time, "everything" out of congress is propaganda sound bites, so I'm not going to pick on backronyms in particular. Having a short monicker for a bill remains useful. It's not like non-backronym bills in congress have names that accurately reflect what they seek to achieve.

Other countries do just fine with numbered bills.

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Post by [deleted] »

thejazzman wrote: post #240
jasode wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>To my knowledge, a radio station or music streaming service doesn't have to negotiate with the record label to play a given song, they just have to pay a small royalty as defined by law. The copyright holders can legally prevent their recordings from being streamed by Spotify. Famous examples were Taylor Swift and Neil Young withholding their music from Spotify. For extra nuance, copyright holders can't stop cover s…

Swift withheld from Apple Music because they were giving it away for free and not paying her (or anyone); I don't recall it being kept off spotify?

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

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Post by thejazzman »

brookst wrote: post #257
thejazzman wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Swift withheld from Apple Music because they were giving it away for free and not paying her (or anyone); I don't recall it being kept off spotify?

Source for the Apple Music claim? Here's info about how and why Swift pulled her music from Spotif: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/taylor-swift-yanks-music-s... Perhaps you'd mixed the two up?

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-33220189
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