New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony

[cocodapuf@lemmy.world]

Sure they are, one they figure out it how.

[aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Funilly enough as somebody who has been using the Internet since being a working class teen in a poor European nation in the early 90s and thus knowing all about pirating, GoG is what made me stop pirating games (and even after they came up with GoG Galaxy I still kept downloading offline installers, plus my purchases in Steam have always been pretty limited in comparison to those in GoG exactly because in Steam my access to install a game can be removed at any time) whilst things like Netflix never stopped my pirating of Movies and TV-Series exactly because it was a streaming service which I would have to pay forever to maintain access to the Films and Series I liked rather than a Film and Series store were I could buy to keep (and, adding to this, during the peak period of VHS tapes and DVDs I actually did buy a lot of physical media).

Anecdotal, I know, but it's funny that my behaviour over the years almost perfect matches what you describe.

[vonreposti@feddit.dk]

If you're in a private tracker like RED or OPS it works very well, but I agree that public trackers are not well indexed enough

[drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works]

But they can make up excuses for their arsenal for whenever they want to ban a site they don't like from common eyes.

"It was banned because it was pornography"

"It was banned because it was displaying pirated content"

"It was banned because it harmed the public good"

They want control over what the common people can see, hear, say, and think.

[remembertheapollo_@lemmy.world]

Oh. Making something illegal illegal again? That’ll be effective.

[ilikeboobies@lemmy.ca]

This is about foreign websites

It’s going after ISPs, Google, Cloudflare that allow access to them

Also it’s great to see the Democrats prioritizing this atm

[fundmecfsresearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I would still pirate — but most normie pirates wouldn’t.

[thegrandnagus@lemmy.world]

I'm so fucking glad Valve isn't beholden to shareholders.

[dfx4509b_2@lemmy.org]

It's only on Linux though, for Windows, CUETools and CUERipper are some of the most powerful OSS tools for ripping CDs you can get.

[ookiiboy@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

This falls under enshitification, no?

[ookiiboy@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

... You know that feeling when you get nerd sniped.

[hansolo@lemm.ee]

If you read the bill, heavily sponsored by the MPA, part of it is about forcing ISPs (and presumably US based VPNs) to block the DNS/URLs of "foreign criminal" sites.

It's laying the groundwork for a Great American Firewall.

[foggenbooty@lemmy.world]

The problem with cable was it was not on demand and contained ads.

I would never, ever pay for cable even in today's world if it was $10 a month because of the overwhelming amount of ads.

[ratzchatsubo@lemm.ee]

Who pays for vpns anymore. Isn't proton VPN free?

[archmageazor@lemmy.world]

Oh no!

Anyway.

[buddahriffic@lemmy.world]

I'm curious how effective those bans have been. Is free porn difficult to access in states that have added verification laws or has it only affected the larger players that get attention while the ones that most people don't usually think immediately of fly under the radar?

[danvctr@sh.itjust.works]

Someone I know told me their usual site is no verification, but sometimes finding content through Google on the big sites triggers an ID verification.

[daggermoon@lemmy.world]

I haven't used Windows in a couple of years. I use Arch btw.

[krompus@lemmy.world]

Freedomwall

[theneverfox@pawb.social]

You hit the nail on the head, it's just the biggest sites