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Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites (arstechnica.com)

submitted 4 months ago by Glass0448@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Hahahahaha

Unintended consequences - what are they going to do once 90% of connections are encrypted, include use of VPNs and encrypted DNS?

This is what they're promoting.

Host your own encrypted DNS on a VPS in a non-compliant location, use a VPN to connect to it.

So many ways these idiots are cutting their own throats.

Also, let's list the companies rather than say "Movie Industry". Or let that be a link to a Wiki article listing all the companies and their holdings.

Fuck em all at this point. I go to maybe 2 movies a year, at most. And I'm cutting subscription services, down to 2 at this point.

[–] khorovodoved@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As a guy from Russia, I must admit that vpns are not a big problem for censors. They can be easily blocked, including self-hosted ones by protocol detection. And DNS would not do much with IP and clienthello-based blocks. And most users are not enough tech-savvy to constantly switch to new protocols as old ones get blocked.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You have no rights in Russia.

VPNs can't be categorically banned in the US without major first amendment issues. It's not a huge technical issue, but unless the courts just throw out the Constitution (a risk that we're seeing too much of, but still a meaningful bar to cross), there are huge legal barriers to doing so.

Your government doesn't need to care about legal barriers because you have a dictator who can act unilaterally.

[–] khorovodoved@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

VPNs are not categorically banned in Russia either. Just 95% of them. Categorical ban is not actually required here. Government can just create licensing procedure and license only those VPNs, which follow "rules". I do not see how this is different from ISP bans.

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Half a year later, additional categories are added for CSAM. And another year later for illegal copies and cracks. All the while some states openly missuse it against porn and abortion. We know that game already!