U.S. Lawmakers Work on Unified Site-Blocking Bill to Counter Online Piracy * TorrentFreak

https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-lawmakers-work-on-unified-site-blocking-bill-to-counter-online-piracy/

Last week's Supreme Court decision in Cox Communications reshaped the piracy liability landscape, creating new urgency for site-blocking.

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toiletobserver@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 146d

God forbid we do the other thing where reasonably priced and accessible media are made available for purchase without an infinite copyright glitch.

EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 146d

So the USA is planning a Great Firewall, much like a certain other country that we claim “lacks freedom.” If I didn’t know any better, I might think that my government was self-serving, hypocritical, and corrupt, but that’s impossible. We’re the freest nation in the history of the world.

femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 pts · 146d (4 replies)

So more vpn

imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 146d (2 replies)

Or usenet

OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 146d (1 reply)

Shhh...

tacobytes@programming.dev · 2 pts · 145d
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toiletobserver@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 146d

Yis

OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 146d (1 reply)

Yeah that'll stop 'em!

tacobytes@programming.dev · 1 pts · 145d
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tacobytes@programming.dev · 7 pts · 145d
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Doomsider@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 144d

They could just provide cheap high quality streaming services to end piracy, but instead they want to provide garbage multi-tier advertising enabled massively fractured streaming service and force people to subscribe by playing a lamesauce game of pirate whack-a-mole.