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

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The people who create these services will always be more clever and quick to implement workarounds than politicians. It's a futile battle.

Want to avoid piracy? Make getting things easier and more convenient.

Back when Netflix was £5-10 depending on tier, had a load of content, and an account could be shared between a few trusted people, I practically gave up pirating. Now it's £18 per month for 4K and doesn't have those other positives going for it, I've abandoned it in favour of Radarr+Sonarr+Plex, and am having a better experience.

For video games, I predominantly buy from Steam, because it's a good service, and so far I have not seen any evidence that Valve are going to fuck me over. They've made gaming and all the things ancillary to it a lot more convenient. So I happily pay. If they embrace enshittification, guess what I'll do?

The only games I do pirate are Nintendo/Sega games that haven't been sold in decades. Why? Because there's no feasible other way to buy them and keep them!

I don't pirate music because Spotify, for all the issues I have with it (and boy do I have a few), still has almost every song I search for, is fairly priced, and hasn't clamped down on account sharing in the same way Netflix/Disney/etc have. I'm part of a family where we split the cost. All the music I could possibly want for £2.20 per month? Fine by me! If that goes away, I go away, yarr harr.

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I still usually pirate when buying requires jumping through too many hoops. Being in a sanctioned country, ahem, adds some just impractical to go through.

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Usenet is perfectly controllable for this kind of thing.

Also it's not intended for sharing binaries, that's bad behavior.

I can see something new, distributed (no servers), but with Usenet's feel and paradigm, being the pinnacle of piracy. But there is no such thing.

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Not to mention Valve spearheaded major development for making Linux gaming like 200% better than it used to be, with development of Proton and everything, and giving all those work back to the entire gaming community as open source products entirely for free, bring in momentum for an entire industry.

That's a company you support.

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You can't legislate piracy away...

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If you actually had a catch all service

I believe this used to be called cable tv.

But before you reply, yeah, I know cable didn't get everything. And you had to pay extra for Disney, HBO, etc. That's all true.

But I do remember a time right around 2005, when everyone was saying "if only there were a-la-carte options, for people who only want sports, or only want movies". My point being, there's no winning and the grass is always greener somewhere.

And for what it's worth, I basically agree with you. I use Plex, I have a few friends who also run Plex servers and we all share content. That's the best catch all I've ever found.

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Sure they are, one they figure out it how.

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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.

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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

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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.

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

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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

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

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

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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.

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This falls under enshitification, no?

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

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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.

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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.

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

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