The Motion Picture Association will work with Congress to start blocking piracy sites in the US
The Motion Picture Association will work with Congress to start blocking piracy sites in the US
At CinemaCon this year, the Motion Picture Association Chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin said the organization is going to work with Congress to establish and enforce a site-blocking legislation in the United States.
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What else will corporations pay Congress to decide that is in corporations' best interest for us to not see?
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Its good to see congress focusing on the real issues finally. When I pay taxes, this is what I'm looking for. Hopefully they will get around to legalizing kicking homeless people and children in the face soon as this is another one of my priorities.
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Instead of working to create a cost effective, quick method for users to buy (AND OWN, NOT LICENSE) digital movies, the MPAA is instead going to try and censor the internet. Brilliant move, idiots.
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There is nothing they want us to do less.
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They're spoiled from selling you the same movies over and over again whenever a new medium becomes normalized, despite all your previous licenses. Then they complain when your media breaks or you want to share with your best friend.
They want your money for not doing anything new.
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So, what youre describing is thieves, but not cool?
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These are the people that sued a kid who broke DVD "drm" so he could play LEGAL movies he OWNED on a Linux machine since there was still licensing issues (i think that's the reason?) and no player. An be he didn't even live in the US.
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Yeah. Fuck these execs. Steal everything they own. Burn the rest. Turn up the piracy and make local sharing networks.
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Remember SOPA?
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He [MPAA CEO Charles Rivkin] added that almost 60 countries use site-blocking as a tool against piracy, "including leading democracies and many of America's closest allies." The only reason why the US isn't one of them, he continued, is the "lack of political will, paired with outdated understandings of what site-blocking actually is, how it functions, and who it affects."
No, you're the one who doesn't understand. We don't want censorship, and we have this thing called the 1st Amendment.
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MPAA is the organization that took 2600 to court over linking to DeCSS source code. All they understand is money and power and so far is worked really well. This is an organization that literally inserted itself into our society. Remove them, by force if necessary.
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Australia's version is a dns block. It only stops people who don't know how to google or change thier dns.
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land of the free
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VPNs are about to become a lot more commonplace.
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the growth has already been staggering since states starting requiring ID’s for pornhub. I’m glad tech literacy is increasing in the face of these recurring laws. Small silver lining I can latch on to lol
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It's almost like John Oliver's NSA street campaign. No one cared until he started talking about how the NSA was cause inappropriately "handling" dick pics
They're half the way there. One does not simply turn off the porn. People will go through great lengths to see nudes
Now we just have to make them understand that their porn history is being collected along with their legal identity. Hackers will get it before long, and if the government doesn't have it already, it's just a matter of time
The violation we've felt having all of our movements and habits tracked is apparently only felt by the masses when their junk is analyzed. Which I find weird, but hey, whatever makes people realize privacy isn't something to shrug off
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Very common amerika L
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The least productive Congress since the Great Depression? The same Congress who couldn't pass a budget for the government until 6 months into the very fiscal year it's for? That Congress? Priorities.
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What are you talking about? The current congress is incredibly effective. They just have way more important things to focus on then whatever you peasants are yammering about. Like banning tiktok.
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A bunch of old white guys who literally don't understand the internet vs. the entire internet. Okie doke.
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The c-suite of the MPAA is surprisingly... diverse https://www.motionpictures.org/who-we-are/our-people/
The only colour the bourgeoisie care about is green.
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We will need to use hidden networks like !i2p@lemmy.world
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Maybe this will get i2p out of beta...
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wait can you explain what this is/how it works? I've never heard of it before
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Sure, i2p or the invisible internet project is a FOSS project which acts as an anonymous network anyone can potentially access, and host on.
It does this by creating end to end encrypted peer to peer tunnels between its users and then sending data through itself via a path between some of the 50,000+ volunteers that make up the project. The path data takes is random so a third party seeing any communication in full is highly unlikely, and even at that, its still encrypted.
The software that implements this is the i2p router, and when using the i2p router you become a node on the network like everyone else using it, allowing pieces of anyone's data to move through your router, just as your data moves through theirs.
The UX/UI is very good for new users and makes it easy to access, or host. Particularly, to my understanding, i2p is also very popular for torrenting due to the nature of how it works (in comparison to similar projects such as tor, there is an entire built in solution for torrenting included with i2p).
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Isn’t this similar to tor, and slow af??
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Similar in some ways different in others, actually surprisingly fast for what it does though and I find the user experience a lot nicer than tor.
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land of the fee home of the grave
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Judging by the fact that most of congress doesn’t know how TikTok or WiFi work, I’m guessing it’s gonna be fine.
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They may not know how it works, which is why it's fucking dangerous that they are getting "consulted" by the MPA.
Best case scenario: it's just a DNS level block.
Worst case scenario: it's a DNS level log capture so that the MPA can sue people who watch things on fmovies or similar sites, like the RIAA did in the 90s.
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Ill say it one more time: Selfhost your shit
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and I'm sure they're paying them lots of money to do it because God forbid the rich assholes aren't rich enough 🙄
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Just hoping private torrent sites and Usenet remain relatively unscathed. Honestly I'm surprised about how many of the big private trackers have lasted so long.
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They're not smart enough it figure out anything not mainstream. I heard most of the big sites blocked recently were live TV feed sites.
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Any effect these measures may have will be easily circumvented by a VPN
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Curious, I checked out Chris Dodd and wonder what he's up to. He's a close advisor now to Biden so I'd imagine he's whispering in Biden's ear and whoever will listen, about how much of piracy is 'bad for ya'. In case anyone forgot, Chris Dodd was a major asshole during his 6 year stint (2011 - 2017) with MPAA and he ultimately failed in stopping piracy.
I don't think this latest tactic will work. Congress couldn't even understand Facebook and they couldn't even hold Mark Zuckerberg of all people, accountable for his shit. Congress, MPAA and all the forces in the world couldn't stop Kim Dotcom. MPAA, ACE and whatever, still cannot shut down The Pirate Bay.
They'll just keep bashing their heads on the brick wall. The only victories they've gotten in all of the 20+ year decade war on piracy, is that most times, the sites go down because of lack of funding and support. They only take down big sites because they've found weak links or they've found those run-a-mouth pirates who've gotta go around talking shit about pirating to the point where they're a liability then wonder why their favorite service/site is shut down.
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We'll make new sites! Fuckers.
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Or hide our sites on hidden networks like !i2p@lemmy.world
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How about fighting the reason why those sites exist in the first place?
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Nope. Only punish. Only take. They can only ask for fear, they do not want our love, except through fear.
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Am I gonna have to pay for a vpn that actually lets me fake being outside the ‘states? I usually self host on a VM host to avoid incurring expenses, but it seems like that’s not really an option here. Seems like I might have to go for a AWS instance running PiVPN or something.
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you could always engage in something like i2p. Less shit to be found there, but a pretty neat little place on the internet.
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Heads up, pivpn is now unmaintained !
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Use an one € strato instance as Server
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Innocence is no protection
Truth is no defense.
You don't own shit til you steal it.
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Reminder: The pirates won the last time they tried this crap.
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lmao good fucking luck
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average us congressman is just the boomer version of some reddit nerd removed and moaning about how not giving a corporation a few dollars is basically the same as killing a baby
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Out of country DNS servers would probably completely circumvent this.
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FREEDOM!