New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony
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Freedomwall
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You hit the nail on the head, it's just the biggest sites
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.....but why?
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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.
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Corporate legislation, making America Great as always.
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So many long games are being played now, it's like everything is laying groundwork for something else. Would be nice for laws to just do what they do.
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I don't really watch TV much in the first place of my own choice. A few things my partner wants to watch but that's about it. Music I get download with yt-dpl -x, I think that was it anyway as I set an alias for it
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I remember as kids we shared music by Bluetooth or copying files on a memory stick. You are not stopping that.
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I want to like GoG but their Linux support can be pretty awful at times. It took over a week for X4 to update the Linux version on GoG compared to steam that in the end I refunded it and bought on steam. Also proton is pretty nice to have.
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And you still can't stop someone just playing it and recording the audio from outside of the VM.
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It's a slippery slope. Soon they will make doing illegal things a crime.
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If you use a US-based VPN, you fucked up yourself.
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Wouldn't be the first wall he put up in the name of freedom
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They could take it a step further and threaten penalties for doing illegal things.
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Word... this is why I used spotify for a long time, when it used to be a good service... pirating wasn't worth the hassle.
now almost everything is worth the hassle
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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.
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Best laws money can buy!
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How does proton cover that expense?
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But not if they're the ones doing the illegal stuff, apparently.
