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

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It's hard and complex, but they can. And they aim to.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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crunchyroll is the most infuriating they were a piracy streaming company that went legit

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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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I mean, why not onion routing and tor?

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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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I believe Tuta is sound €5 too so both would still be less than ExpressVPN

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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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Tor can be blocked.

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