TL;DR, "Let's block every single piracy site". Sounds foolproof to me
U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD"
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#43> courts can subsequently order U.S. service providers to block access to these sites.
So looks like this will be at the ISP level, so should be able to be circumvented easily with VPNs.
The scary part is it's likely to lead to a lockdown on VPNs in the future.
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#44I'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…
How's your local library system?
I live in a small country town. It's decent for its size, but it's very small.
In contrast, Archive.org is an absolutely fantastic library, and we're happy to support them.
Way better than my public library -- especially for hard-to-find media.
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#45Oh 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?
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That's just silly. There is no moral comparison between the two. I wouldn't bother to respond, except that it's this sort of attitude that was behind the gleeful response and support of a cold blooded murder.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thom Tillis - R Chris Coons - D Marsha Blackburn - R Adam Schiff - D
Schiff is (D) Worth noting that this was introduced by Zoe Lofgren (D) the 77 year old that represents a big chunk of Silicon Valley. Disappointing.
Same rep that grandstanded with an "Aaron's law" that wouldn't have actually changed the laws used to persecute aaronsw.
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#47> 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
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
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That's just silly. There is no moral comparison between the two. I wouldn't bother to respond, except that it's this sort of attitude that was behind the gleeful response and support of a cold blooded murder.
"That's just silly."
... how?
I can point at myriad examples in which someone's life was ended because expending the monetary resources necessary to extend it was not in the best interests of shareholder returns.
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#49Meanwhile, VPN use is skyrocketing as is use of Tor and the dark web.
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#50Good luck! I've stolen everything I want to steal already!