Comment on The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee...

DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• sanqueue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Guess what also been increasing? The number of streaming platforms trying to out bid their competitors. You know what else is increasing? The number of streaming platforms going after account sharing and they wonder why people are going back to piracy. Piracy is king and no one will be able to stop it.

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  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s what I’m worried about….billionaires will convince governments (who haven’t banned them yet) a “think of the children act” which will ban VPNs

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Way too many businesses rely on VPNs to ban them.

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      • veniasilente@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh you sweet child. They only need to ban them for citizens, not for business / shareholders.

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      • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        We’ll how does China and Russia and other authoritarian shitholes that have banned them operate?

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    • partizan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      VPN is basically just a encrypted channel between 2 systems, while one of them forward traffic to the internet and unless they block/filter every encrypted connection, there is no way to block it at mass…

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      • Shyfer@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It can’t be impossible because certain countries have been trying. Hasn’t China already been fining people for using VPNs?

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    • AAA@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well, at some point people will remember that it’s possible to share things via USB stick or a drive.

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      • NoRodent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Man, those were the times… Lending hard drives to friends, burning CDs… Sharing lists of who has what…

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