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[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

bittorrent: lol

also who the fuck is using a vpn operating in the us?

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 17 hours ago

also it has 0 cosponsors, is stuck in committee, mike johnson sent everyone home so they couldn't vote on hegseth's impeachment, and issa is retiring at the end of the year... so it's pretty moot.

[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 57 points 1 day ago

Fucking Darryl Issa again?

This motherfucker has been trying to censor and cripple the internet for like 25 years

Fuck off dude, you’re the terrorist

[-] 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 6 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 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours 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

Issa argued that online piracy helps fund terrorist groups and other criminal networks.

Gotta play the "Everything I don't like is 'terrrorism'. " card, naturally. I wonder if it hurts when you have the collective hand of media conglomerates shoved up your ass like a sock puppet.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 20 hours ago

Something something terrorism and protect the childrens!

[-] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 3 points 19 hours ago

Piracy sites are like gremlins lol

[-] DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 44 points 1 day ago

Welcome back SOPA.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 day ago
[-] far_university1990@reddthat.com 10 points 1 day ago

https://beige.party/@intransitivelie/117057396732763183

I regret to inform everyone that my copy of QBittorrent escaped its sandbox last night and downloaded a whole bunch of content owned by major corporations, and then my copy of Jellyfin broke containment and added those unfortunately-downloaded media files to its various libraries. I'm conducting an internal investigation to figure out how this happened, which will involve consuming these media files until the answers become apparent. Thank you for your cooperation during this trying time.

[-] quack@lemmy.zip 56 points 1 day ago

Yeah good luck with that.

[-] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 20 points 1 day ago

Oh no, not DNS, however will I get to my desired sites?? DNS isn't the only way. It's just the most obvious or easiest, but we'll let them keep thinking that 😆

Not like you could go to domain registrar. Or to the host company.

[-] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

DNS is like a post office or delivery company. They all have databases of who lives where so they can match a home address to a name.

DNS isn't required per se, you can "deliver" traffic directly or through another delivery service... If "https://website.com/" has a domain address of 111.222.33.44, you could also just type that into your browser URL bar like https://111.222.33.44/ and DNS isn't (or at least shouldn't be) touched.

[-] loppwn@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago

Nah https needs a domain name

[-] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 1 points 17 hours ago

Huh, you're right! Guess I haven't done that in a long while lol. I tested to Google.com IP address and the http request redirects to https so it did work technically, but I'm guessing not many sites will handle that correctly or all the time.

I know. You can add host and ip to os host file and bypass dns.

But instead of go to person actually responsible for dns entry, domain registrar, they go to dns resolver? And also not go to server host or reverse proxy (cloudflare) which actual cause distribute?

[-] Arola@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago

Maybe the bill will get an amendment. Maybe a 2nd amendment is required.

[-] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago

A 2nd amendment, by a 2nd player, let's name it "Luigi" or smth.

[-] Sapphy@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Couldn’t people circumvent that by not hosting piracy sites in that country and by using a VPN based outside the imperial core?

[-] arules@retrofed.com 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I wish I could read good news, like

Sharers woke up, Republicans have been composted, Blackbeard installs MetroNets at every home.

[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 23 points 1 day ago

Oh no! I might have to switch my VPN to a server in a different country! That could take nearly half a minute!

[-] bertlewirth@lemy.lol 14 points 1 day ago

You set your vpn to….. america??

[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 14 points 1 day ago

It works fine (for now), and you get slightly faster speeds/lower pings with a server that's geographically closer.

That said, I'm very close to Canada, so that would be the obvious next choice if the US starts blocking shit.

I do, it's faster

[-] eleitl@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

So the expensive infrastructure for DPI that that takes, who's going to pay for that? And just where are you going to buy it? China?

[-] thejml@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Honestly, they're likely already doing it for surveillance of their citizens anyway.

[-] eleitl@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Surveillance is cheap, filtering/blocking with DPI is not, and has plenty of false positives, see Russia.

[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 11 points 1 day ago

and meanwhile my qbt is hotdoging it (seeding linux ISOs)

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