New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony
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I'm locked into ExpressVPN for a year but I was thinking about switching to Mullvad shortly. ExpessVPN isn't bad but being in the British Virgin Islands does give me a bit of anxiety.
Mullvad has a lot of perks. Like I mentioned, no deals for buying yearly. Get it month by month for the same price. No account connections. You get an ID number and that's it. That ID is your password and username. Pay with nearly anything. Crypto, card, money services, even mail in physical cash.
There's a lot to love about it, and it hands down has some of the fastest tunnels I've used. Nord was always half my internet speed no matter what I connected to. You don't even need Google Play if you want to use it on android. It's open source, so grab it right on F-Droid. Easily supports any OS. If you don't want a GUI, there's a CLI alternative, too.
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We have literal Nazis stealing all our private information right this second…but THIS is the bill that gets to the floor?
Fiddling while Rome burns.
I don't think you understand. Rome burning is the distraction. Shit like this is the real goal. The U.S. will be lucky if it hasn't collapsed to neo-feudalism in the next four years.
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It's much harder when all your ISPs and the world's largest DNS resolvers block the IPs or resolving the DNS, which is what this dystopian bill proposes. Make no mistake, this is Orwellian censorship masquerading as piracy protection.
Then we have to build a community DNS
️ you can’t really block free internet -
Then we have to build a community DNS
️ you can’t really block free internetIt's hard and complex, but they can. And they aim to.
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Mullvad has a lot of perks. Like I mentioned, no deals for buying yearly. Get it month by month for the same price. No account connections. You get an ID number and that's it. That ID is your password and username. Pay with nearly anything. Crypto, card, money services, even mail in physical cash.
There's a lot to love about it, and it hands down has some of the fastest tunnels I've used. Nord was always half my internet speed no matter what I connected to. You don't even need Google Play if you want to use it on android. It's open source, so grab it right on F-Droid. Easily supports any OS. If you don't want a GUI, there's a CLI alternative, too.
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Thanks! Honestly the only reason I paid for yearly was because I've had it for like five years now and I got sick of paying $12 every month.
Plus the one benefit I like is I paid extra for a dedicated IP (mostly used for my streamer since it has better luck with my streaming services like Prime UK; though I'm ending Prime at the end of the year)
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I have heard that phrase before, but I am unsure what it denotes specifically.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
Basically countries part of (or allied) with the countries that are part of the UKUSA agreement.
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Thanks! Honestly the only reason I paid for yearly was because I've had it for like five years now and I got sick of paying $12 every month.
Plus the one benefit I like is I paid extra for a dedicated IP (mostly used for my streamer since it has better luck with my streaming services like Prime UK; though I'm ending Prime at the end of the year)
Yeah, I canceled Prime a few years back and it hasn't hurt me at all. You really get nothing in return, except maybe Prime Day deals and even then you can find the deals elsewhere. I've taken to cutting out the middleman and ordering through the product's actual website to better support them.
Mullvad has been €5 since 2009. Comes to a little over $6. $12 is just highway robbery. You won't regret the switch.
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It's hard and complex, but they can. And they aim to.
We've been able to chat with people inside failed/repressive states forever even though their governments very much want to block it. Blocking communication between people who want to talk is incredibly difficult. They can make it hard but I'm not sure they can stop it completely.
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We've been able to chat with people inside failed/repressive states forever even though their governments very much want to block it. Blocking communication between people who want to talk is incredibly difficult. They can make it hard but I'm not sure they can stop it completely.
North Korea was able to stop it. Granted, they literally just don't allow any of the tech in the hands of the average person with threat of torture or death. But dystopian is as dystopian does.
I see your point, though, and it'll likely always be possible to bypass those controls, at least for people with the know-how. But that's not the average citizen. Let's do what we can to ensure it doesn't come to this in the first place.
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Stop hiking prices on streaming services and making them awful to use while ending sales of physical media and I won't pirate content.
Totally on board.
Physical media meant straightforward ownership. I have it and I will have it. The distributor I bought from went out of business? I don't notice, my copy still works. My distributor turns out not to have had the rights to sell it to me? Well that's bad but it's done and I have my copy. I start a series and I know I can finish it before the rights move to some other distributor.
Netflix early streaming days were magic. One service had rights to pretty much everything and was relatively affordable. Now each service has a tiny fraction of old Netflix and each one costs more than twice what Netflix streaming did. Frankly paying 3x the netflix price would have been fine if the trend continued except for pricing, but alas, here we are. Also, there's no amount of money to pay to some of these services to make them shut up with ads, even with 'ad-free' offerings/plans.
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This is dumb considering that these types of streaming sites are how I actually discover anime and become a fan enough that i want to purchase merch. I pay for Crunchy Roll, but sometimes I want to check out stuff from other services. If I had to rely sheerly on legal services I wouldn't watch or discover half of what I did.
Legal services are also pretty inferior. I wanted to watch A certain Scientific Railgun.. Season 1 was dubbed, but season 2 on the service wasn't... I literally had to track it down on some streaming site to get access to what I'm paying for.
crunchyroll is the most infuriating they were a piracy streaming company that went legit
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crunchyroll is the most infuriating they were a piracy streaming company that went legit
kick the ladder down
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I'm currently watching The Practice. One of my favorite shows. Over the years it's been on Netflix, prime, and shit like peacock and tubi. I can't keep up with all that. Right now it's in Amazon prime which I have but can't watch because I have a "business" account and according to Amazon I shouldn't be watching shows and movies on a "business" account.
Soooo... To the high seas I go. Not that I don't want to pay for it but because it's so much easier.
And now I'll have the show for whenever I want to watch it.
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It's hard and complex, but they can. And they aim to.
I mean, why not onion routing and tor?
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Difficulty aside, it's currently a non-bill as far as anybody should be concerned. There is a lot going on and this isn't really something until it gets more representatives behind it.
I mean ffs the new admin struck down Net Neutrality already, where are the people concerned by that?
They weren't worried about it last time and they're not worried about it now.
My only faith in the system is that they will screw over such a wide number of people that it'll piss people off enough to care.
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Yeah, I canceled Prime a few years back and it hasn't hurt me at all. You really get nothing in return, except maybe Prime Day deals and even then you can find the deals elsewhere. I've taken to cutting out the middleman and ordering through the product's actual website to better support them.
Mullvad has been €5 since 2009. Comes to a little over $6. $12 is just highway robbery. You won't regret the switch.
I believe Tuta is sound €5 too so both would still be less than ExpressVPN
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I don't think you understand. Rome burning is the distraction. Shit like this is the real goal. The U.S. will be lucky if it hasn't collapsed to neo-feudalism in the next four years.
Alarmism doesn't help just like energy drinks don't help. You get a short period of strong agitation followed by a longer period of mild apathy.
Nothing happens abruptly.
Also it's called oligopolized capitalism, or maybe state capitalism, I forgot what Nazi Germany's economy system was called, but that'd be the right classification.
However, the ideology is not that of Nazi Germany, not even similar. It's still a democracy, however shitty it would seem. Maybe, yes, a 4 years long sample of those Confederate States of America some people wanted, but not even the full bouquet of taste.
In any case, things like this bill could have been seen from 20 years ago. A lot of people just thought it's not important. Just like it always happens.
We are sitting discussing things without doing anything, a reminder. You know something to hurt them - you do that. You don't - why bother?
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I mean, why not onion routing and tor?
Tor can be blocked.
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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?
Both. But we already knew the point wasn't to ban free press, but ID people online like the Koreas.
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Yeah, but for every dictator there's countless intelligent revolutionaries. Especially when it comes to the internet.
They're really shooting themselves in the foot trying to deny us/force overcharge the very thing they use to make us complacent in the first place: media.
If they were smart they'd ignore this bill. It would just bring attention to their attempt to essentially seize the internet and for what? For us just to get around it again anyway?
Not to mention if they enforce US VPNs to conform it'll just result in more currency leaving the country. No wonder this fucking floundering economy is all our fault.
Governing is like holding a marble to the table with your thumb. The more you press down, the more likely that marble is to shoot out and break your shit.
It's good to know I'm not the only one who thinks this way. That marble analogy is on point. The US is built on mutually beneficial structures. When one cabal of structures starts targeting others, the functionality of the whole country flounders and rebellion is legitimized.
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