MidnightBSD Bans Users in Brazil and California, Warns More Regions Could Follow

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• MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  You can’t spell “based” without BSD.

  Also, that’s pretty much the main reason why FOSS OS are better than proprietary ones. They’ll just say “okay, I guess we’ll just stick to free countries” (while subtly gesturing at the nearest VPN).

  Meanwhile, Windows and MacOS are going to fold like origami.

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• pfr@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Personally, I don’t think this is the answer. Like, I get it, and it’s a sure way to avoid having to deal with all this bs. But at the end of the day, the only people who suffer from this decision are the end users. It’s punishing them for something their government has implemented. Doesn’t seem right to me.

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  • Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Cutting services as opposed to complyimg is the better approach, since the other is a endorsement of it without consequences for regions putting it in place.

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  • tty84@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨49⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    It is not up to the developer community to take responsibility for the stupid decisions made by their government.

    People get the leaders they deserve.

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• ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Good. I’m glad they’re standing up to this insanity. 

  It’s ironic though because it’s a California based OS.

  By the way, anyone tried gaming on BDD?

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• Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Speaking as a brazilian resident, the law will not be enforced. No such laws are ever enforced here. Everybody openly pirates everything, people sell retro gaming systems preloaded with thousands of ROMs openly online and in physical shops, and the government doesn’t even have 1% of the surveillance infrastructure needed to make enforcement attractive. The law is just electoral posturing and lip service to please evangelical idiots… but I repeat myself.

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  • atkdef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Remember what the maintainer of The Pirate Bay once said?

    Never be too certain something won’t be enforced, as the power of capitalists are far worse than the public can imagine.

    Maybe I’m too pessimistic, but this may just be the start. Big corps may find their way to control every aspect, step by step.

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  • lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is different from pirating. The government will be going after the developers like they did Kim Dotcom.

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  • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The amount of bootleg dvd shops I saw in Paraíba and the amount of friends that have uTorrent installed on their phones is more proof of that. I’m all for it, I wish bandwidth was better all around Brazil to make it easier for everyone to just download whatever you guys want, especially if it’s from an American company

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  • wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Dedo no cú e gritaria

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    • RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Is it strange that i understood this even though i’m Italian?

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The law isn’t going to be enforced in CA either

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• xxce2AAb@feddit.dk ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That may be the best thing to deal with the potential legal liabilities introduced by this unmitigated abject idiocy.

  Good thing everybody can still torrent whatever they want from where ever they want. Or use IPFS. Or IRC DCC. Or Usenet. Or just a VPN.

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• kepix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  how its done

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• BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is a feature and not a bug. The biggest distro maintainers will try to comply and the smallest ones will start banning usage or even closing up shop.

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• TheLastOfHisName@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why do I get the feeling I will be distro hopping in the not-too-distant future?

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• thisbenzingring@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  haha I guess that’s one way to deal with it and do nothing at all. Doubtful they block the connections from those areas

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  • towerful@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    IDK. It puts them at the forefront of this fight.

    If governments successfully prosecute distro maintainers (if they can) for this, then distro maintainers are liable.
    And distro maintainers would then have to pursue non-compliant users to cover that liability, or fold.
    Which is a huge loss for open source.

    Or, there would be a huge legal fight and it turns out that the licence of a distro protects it from its users actions.
    Which would be awesome and a massive win. It also makes sense. Nobody is suing an OS maintainer because it was used for a data breach.
    And then the governments have to pursue the actual users. Which… is gonna be useless wrt these laws

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• KiwiTB@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Im just glad BSD is getting press.

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• nathan@piefed.alphapuggle.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ironic for “the bsd for everyone”

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  • inari@piefed.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    *Terms and conditions may apply

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  • Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Curse you. I came here to say, “þey’re going to have to change þeir motto to: The BSD for everyone, except Brazilians and Californians, and probably soon New Yorkers too. And probably the British, sooner rather than later.”

    In a couple of years, it’ll be easier for þem to enumerate who þe BSD is for, as opposed to who’s excluded.

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