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Re: Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN

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Post by raffraffraff »

Tbh, screw Google. They think that their monopoly makes them untouchable, so they abuse their position. Eg: yesterday my wife's friend group received an email from one member of the group. It contained 10 links. Other Gmail users replied-to-all. But my wife (not a Gmail user) had her reply blocked because the email contained 10 links. She was replying to the person who sent the email.

Pardon my language, but fuck you Google. If you want to implement mail filtering rules, do it fairly and equally.

Re: Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN

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Post by leoedin »

dxbednarczyk wrote: post #27
jazzyjackson wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The pirates lost, I know one other person besides me that collects movies to watch offline outside of subscription services. The legal actions against free streaming sites prevents any serious competitor to Netflix, Disney-Hulu etc, which are hugely valuable properties.

>The pirates lost I believe this is not mainly due to big companies and/or governments cracking down on piracy, but a massive loss in knowledge and shift in perspective about piracy, especially in younger generations. It's true that piracy numbers have been declining, but this largely comes as a result of "piracy is dangerous, don't do it! you'll get viruses!!1!"

I can only speak for myself - but the convenience and relatively low cost of Netflix killed piracy for me. It wasn’t really a moral reason, or a fear of prosecution. But Netflix is truly easy, and the cost isn’t significant.

Spotify did the same for music piracy. I just stopped bothering with files.

I think as others have said, the increased balkanisation of the tv streaming world might change that.

Re: Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN

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Post by SkiFire13 »

johnklos wrote: post #7

Companies like Google and Cloudflare just really don't care that they host malicious content and have stopped taking meaningful action to take down reported content. That they'd be blocked at some point is completely unsurprising. As it is, I have to explain to people regularly that clicking on "sponsored" links, or whatever Google calls them, doesn't work because we have to block "googleadservices.com" due to their…

I could see your point if the block was after a takedown request and Google did not comply, but this didn't happen. "Piracy Shield" doesn not send out takedown notices, _it just blocks IPs_ reported by a set of _private companies_.

Re: Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN

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Post by poincaredisk »

slim wrote: post #39
0dayz wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And this is meant to insinuate what exactly?

that the west has no moral superiority over china

There is a vast difference between "oppressing people who dare to mention a certain historical event that the party doesn't like" and "blocking some malware or illegal downloads on the DNS level". I hope you're not being serious when you're equating them.

Re: Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN

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Post by drekipus »

leoedin wrote: post #52
dxbednarczyk wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The pirates lost I believe this is not mainly due to big companies and/or governments cracking down on piracy, but a massive loss in knowledge and shift in perspective about piracy, especially in younger generations. It's true that piracy numbers have been declining, but this largely comes as a result of "piracy is dangerous, don't do it! you'll get viruses!!1!"

I can only speak for myself - but the convenience and relatively low cost of Netflix killed piracy for me. It wasn’t really a moral reason, or a fear of prosecution. But Netflix is truly easy, and the cost isn’t significant. Spotify did the same for music piracy. I just stopped bothering with files. I think as others have said, the increased balkanisation of the tv streaming world might change that.

Netflix has the worst quality and selection that I've seen.

I'm about to pick up piracy again so I can watch good shows that I like

Re: Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN

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Post by zapkyeskrill »

dariosalvi78 wrote: post #41
troupo wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pirates kinda lost when Netflix was more or less the only game in town. Now with 10+ streaming services gatekeeping their content piracy is likely to be back on the rise

Agreed. It's what brought me back to piracy. I can pay one or two subscriptions max and happy to do it, but if the content I'm looking for is not there guess where I go to? And I suppose that many others do the same. In addition, many streaming websites have content that disappear for no apparent reason, or have the content only in some countries etc. Streaming has reduced the need for piracy a lot, and that's probab…

It's what irks me, you travel outside the borders and suddenly everything stops working. Often when you need it the most. Looking at you Amazon kids plus.

Re: Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN

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Post by [deleted] »

raffraffraff wrote: post #51

Tbh, screw Google. They think that their monopoly makes them untouchable, so they abuse their position. Eg: yesterday my wife's friend group received an email from one member of the group. It contained 10 links. Other Gmail users replied-to-all. But my wife (not a Gmail user) had her reply blocked because the email contained 10 links. She was replying to the person who sent the email . Pardon my language, but fuck yo…

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Re: Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN

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Post by olddog2 »

jazzyjackson wrote: post #19
ruthmarx wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Companies like Google and Cloudflare just really don't care that they host malicious content and have stopped taking meaningful action to take down reported content. Honestly I find it incredibly silly companies are still sending out notices to take down copyrighted content. Give up already. The battle is lost and now it's purely a waste of time and money.

The pirates lost, I know one other person besides me that collects movies to watch offline outside of subscription services. The legal actions against free streaming sites prevents any serious competitor to Netflix, Disney-Hulu etc, which are hugely valuable properties.

Plex with a couple of decent paid subscription servers ($20 a month total) is fantastic and is equivalent in usability to netflix except basically everything is available.

It is funny listening to podcasts with billionaires who have unlimited financial resources but can’t watch a show recommended to them because they haven’t downloaded or subscribed to a particular streaming service.

Re: Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN

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Post by izacus »

throwaway48476 wrote: post #45
izacus wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do some of you so badly, sickly want companies like Google to be the police and block your content on their whim? This site is full of proof they're biased and incompetent, why are you so prepared to give them rights that belong to governments?

There was once a time people were able to host their own content.

Yeah, but HNers now demand that the hosters police and surveil the content of the customers they host for - even if they have no warrant or takedown requests from the governments.

Which, obviously, leaves only the largest companies able to play the mercenary police.

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