What else will corporations pay Congress to decide that is in corporations' best interest for us to not see?
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2024
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Its good to see congress focusing on the real issues finally. When I pay taxes, this is what I'm looking for. Hopefully they will get around to legalizing kicking homeless people and children in the face soon as this is another one of my priorities.
Won't someone please think of the children...'s unkicked faces
Thought about it and I don't like it. Motion carries. * slams gavel on homeless child's face *
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As a disabled person I find I am not intentionally tripped anywhere near enough. I beseech Congress to act now before I become complacent in my verticality.
Instead of working to create a cost effective, quick method for users to buy (AND OWN, NOT LICENSE) digital movies, the MPAA is instead going to try and censor the internet. Brilliant move, idiots.
own
There is nothing they want us to do less.
They're spoiled from selling you the same movies over and over again whenever a new medium becomes normalized, despite all your previous licenses. Then they complain when your media breaks or you want to share with your best friend.
They want your money for not doing anything new.
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These are the people that sued a kid who broke DVD "drm" so he could play LEGAL movies he OWNED on a Linux machine since there was still licensing issues (i think that's the reason?) and no player. An be he didn't even live in the US.
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He [MPAA CEO Charles Rivkin] added that almost 60 countries use site-blocking as a tool against piracy, "including leading democracies and many of America's closest allies." The only reason why the US isn't one of them, he continued, is the "lack of political will, paired with outdated understandings of what site-blocking actually is, how it functions, and who it affects."
No, you're the one who doesn't understand. We don't want censorship, and we have this thing called the 1st Amendment.
MPAA is the organization that took 2600 to court over linking to DeCSS source code. All they understand is money and power and so far is worked really well. This is an organization that literally inserted itself into our society. Remove them, by force if necessary.
Australia's version is a dns block. It only stops people who don't know how to google or change thier dns.
land of the free
Land of the free market not free people 🤓
Its not even a free market. Check the protectionism keeping Chinese EVs out of the US. Its more like the land of corporate profits.
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VPNs are about to become a lot more commonplace.
the growth has already been staggering since states starting requiring ID’s for pornhub. I’m glad tech literacy is increasing in the face of these recurring laws. Small silver lining I can latch on to lol
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Very common amerika L
The least productive Congress since the Great Depression? The same Congress who couldn't pass a budget for the government until 6 months into the very fiscal year it's for? That Congress? Priorities.
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A bunch of old white guys who literally don't understand the internet vs. the entire internet. Okie doke.
The c-suite of the MPAA is surprisingly... diverse https://www.motionpictures.org/who-we-are/our-people/
The only colour the bourgeoisie care about is green.
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We will need to use hidden networks like !i2p@lemmy.world
Maybe this will get i2p out of beta...
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land of the fee home of the grave
Judging by the fact that most of congress doesn’t know how TikTok or WiFi work, I’m guessing it’s gonna be fine.
They may not know how it works, which is why it's fucking dangerous that they are getting "consulted" by the MPA.
Best case scenario: it's just a DNS level block.
Worst case scenario: it's a DNS level log capture so that the MPA can sue people who watch things on fmovies or similar sites, like the RIAA did in the 90s.
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and I'm sure they're paying them lots of money to do it because God forbid the rich assholes aren't rich enough 🙄
Just hoping private torrent sites and Usenet remain relatively unscathed. Honestly I'm surprised about how many of the big private trackers have lasted so long.
They're not smart enough it figure out anything not mainstream. I heard most of the big sites blocked recently were live TV feed sites.
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Curious, I checked out Chris Dodd and wonder what he's up to. He's a close advisor now to Biden so I'd imagine he's whispering in Biden's ear and whoever will listen, about how much of piracy is 'bad for ya'. In case anyone forgot, Chris Dodd was a major asshole during his 6 year stint (2011 - 2017) with MPAA and he ultimately failed in stopping piracy.
I don't think this latest tactic will work. Congress couldn't even understand Facebook and they couldn't even hold Mark Zuckerberg of all people, accountable for his shit. Congress, MPAA and all the forces in the world couldn't stop Kim Dotcom. MPAA, ACE and whatever, still cannot shut down The Pirate Bay.
They'll just keep bashing their heads on the brick wall. The only victories they've gotten in all of the 20+ year decade war on piracy, is that most times, the sites go down because of lack of funding and support. They only take down big sites because they've found weak links or they've found those run-a-mouth pirates who've gotta go around talking shit about pirating to the point where they're a liability then wonder why their favorite service/site is shut down.
How about fighting the reason why those sites exist in the first place?
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