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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
Worth noting that this was introduced by Zoe Lofgren (D) the 77 year old that represents a big chunk of Silicon Valley. Disappointing.
Oh so all these AI companies get to steal whatever they want but in order to stop the 99% from stealing we need to lock down the internet?
No one would steal a car. More importantly, everyone would clone a car. Of course we should support this fully. Oppose this bill.
Arguing over what is or isn't piracy is a non-sequitor when it comes to government censorship of the Internet.
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…
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Both major parties are corpo-authoritarian, with the main dynamics of elections being to gauge how much the public is willing to accept and to make half the people think they actually wanted the resulting policies. And for this round the people have spoken that they want it good and hard.
I don’t think they care about the policy. They just see a one sided debate: companies will to pay and an indifferent public.
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.
At this point streaming servcies have been enshitified enough to make piracy again the better experience.
What if the "pirate site" uses foreign cloud provider, and regularly changes IP addresses? Will I lose access to all websites hosted by the foreign cloud provider once their whole ASN will be blocked?
> Block BEARD does not mention VPNs, but its broad definition of “service provider” could be interpreted to include them.
This seems easy to circumvent - you can just use foreign VPN provider, who don't advertise themselves for piracy use, for... piracy. IP/DNS blocking proven to be a good censorship tool though.
I really wish destitutely uncreative people would stop pretending to be clever.