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[–] FlyingSquid 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Aren't most torrent sites not based in the US to begin with?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid 5 points 1 week ago

True, but I think the world bully is about to find out that it isn't the world bully anymore now that it's bullying itself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

This is about foreign websites

It’s going after ISPs, Google, Cloudflare that allow access to them

Also it’s great to see the Democrats prioritizing this atm

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I am quite fond of Nyaa :3

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

There's a part of me that has become annoyed that i'm forced to pay for a vpn to now access the entirety of the internet. I don't blame the vpn provider, though. --Nope, they are not the ones I blame...

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Good luck, especially if they try to ban people from ripping their CDs to FLAC as well, like, how would you even find out if someone is doing that, for instance?

Unless you somehow force a backdoor into rippers like Exact Audio Copy, CUERipper, or Whipper, the latter two being OSS, you can't.

Even SCMS never phoned home to anyone simply because the capability to do that didn't exist yet when that copy protection scheme was first implemented, and it only applied to dubbing a CD over to DAT, MD, or DCC over S/PDIF on consumer gear.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Sony decided to put rootkits on their CDs to stop people from ripping them. They got sued for that.

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[–] cmbabul 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Anyone offhandedly know how this would affect Usenet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I imagine it's possible but it sounds like they're going after low hanging fruit like streaming sites and it also states that they can't prevent people from using VPNs to get around the blocking.

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[–] Cyberjin 3 points 1 week ago

Wasting their time

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