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

[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

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

.....but why?

[fundmecfsresearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Why would I spend money on proprietary software that tracks me and sells my data when it’s trivially easy for me to set up a FOSS alternative and actually own the video files myself.

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

Corporate legislation, making America Great as always.