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Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites (arstechnica.com)

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[-] far_university1990@reddthat.com 14 points 1 day ago

“Foreign websites pirating American movies, TV shows, art, and books steal tens of billions of dollars from the US economy each year,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) said at the time.

How do i steal money you not have? Please tell me, i need to steal 10 billion from myself.

[-] chahk@beehaw.org 1 points 12 hours ago

He should have a chat with Meta, OpenAI, and other megacorps that trained all their models on pirated content.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

create a billion copies of TV show

company looses X billion dollars

buy company for pennies on the dollar

delete billion copie company gains X billion dollars

I am now a billionaire

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