Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites

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• _sideffect@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And when people demand living wages, or properly priced housing, or affordable food, that shit doesn’t matter right?

  Fuck the movie industry.

  They were doing just fine until people started to hate theatres and so their main source of ripping people off faded away.

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• OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fuck em

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• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  looks over at usenet-only arr stack

  “Ok, whatever.”

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Been doing torrents for about… I don’t even know now. 25 years? I’ve got the same setup. What makes use et better? I still don’t get it. I tried it once. It was weird, I had to grab a bunch of files and combine them or something, and I’m mystified how it’s any different than downloading off someone’s server and how they’re able to skirt around site takedowns. You have to pay for it too. Is the lifetime of files even any good? When I tried it I remember you had to take what you could get while it was still there.

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    • abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m mystified how it’s any different than downloading off someone’s server

      A huge difference is you actually are downloading off someone’s server - unlike torrents where you’re actively participating in the distribution of pirated material. If you ever do end up in court… that difference will be important.

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    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Depends on your country’s laws, but where I live you get busted for PROVIDING copyrighted material for download - not for downloading it. Unlike a torrent, you aren’t sharing with anyone else.

      Couple years ago when I first set up Radarr, I found the same shit was on Usenet as the private trackers I was on, so I just stopped torrenting.

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wake me when YouTube gets blocked.

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• foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Block piracy websites with what? Dns resolver?

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• alsu2launda@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Basically demands lawmakers for ISPs implement censorship tools.

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• lorkano@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean, good luck with that. Pirate bay is never going down at this point.

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• june@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lmao’s in VPN

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Then they’ll come for blocking vpn ports or IPs. Then tor. Then…

    Time for our own user owned distributed wireless network.

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  • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    VPN to what? A country that haven’t yet applied such law? This shrinks the internet very much.

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• buzz86us@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Honestly these movie companies are doing it to themselves… When I was a kid in the 90s movies would take 3-6 months for home media, now it is like 1-2 months tops combine that with $15 tickets and I’ll give it a wait and see.

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• FireTower@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or what?

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• sepulcher@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fuck that.

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nah

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• N_Crow@leminal.space ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hmmm, yes. Build a whole generation of tech savvy people with knowledge of VPNs and that activelly hate your guts. I cannot foresee any way this could backfire.

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• flop_leash_973@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ugh Charles Rivkin has such a punch-able face.

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• Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Charles Rivkin… The serial killer?

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s a “movie”? Is that like some kinda Olde English thing like castles and rickets?

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