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New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony (www.cbr.com)

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

I'm currently watching The Practice. One of my favorite shows. Over the years it's been on Netflix, prime, and shit like peacock and tubi. I can't keep up with all that. Right now it's in Amazon prime which I have but can't watch because I have a "business" account and according to Amazon I shouldn't be watching shows and movies on a "business" account.

Soooo... To the high seas I go. Not that I don't want to pay for it but because it's so much easier.

And now I'll have the show for whenever I want to watch it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Wasting their time

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

We have literal Nazis stealing all our private information right this second…but THIS is the bill that gets to the floor?

Fiddling while Rome burns.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago

I don't think you understand. Rome burning is the distraction. Shit like this is the real goal. The U.S. will be lucky if it hasn't collapsed to neo-feudalism in the next four years.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 hours ago

I don't currently sail the high seas, but clamping down on access and making it harder to enjoy content, increasing prices, blocking account sharing, and adding unskippable ads and promos make me want to pirate, just out of spite!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Stop hiking prices on streaming services and making them awful to use while ending sales of physical media and I won't pirate content.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Totally on board.

Physical media meant straightforward ownership. I have it and I will have it. The distributor I bought from went out of business? I don't notice, my copy still works. My distributor turns out not to have had the rights to sell it to me? Well that's bad but it's done and I have my copy. I start a series and I know I can finish it before the rights move to some other distributor.

Netflix early streaming days were magic. One service had rights to pretty much everything and was relatively affordable. Now each service has a tiny fraction of old Netflix and each one costs more than twice what Netflix streaming did. Frankly paying 3x the netflix price would have been fine if the trend continued except for pricing, but alas, here we are. Also, there's no amount of money to pay to some of these services to make them shut up with ads, even with 'ad-free' offerings/plans.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 hours ago

is anime a form of Piracy?! One Piece I guess?!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I checked it again and its STILL at 0 Cosponsors and sitting in the committees inbox if it wasn't already rejected.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/791

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

Even if it passed making piracy super extra illegal+ it's targeting google and cloud flare to block access to sites within 15 days that could still easily be reached outside their boundaries. It's political theater for mpaa riaa etc industry association lobbyists to show they got something for their bribes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago

Brilliant. Make murder illegal now.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Do they not know the concept of piracy? That's like Walmart and Target backing a new bill to stop shoplifting.

They could just make a better service. Between the password sharing, and everything being scattered everywhere, what did they expect? I'm going to pay for half a dozen services and still not get to watch what I want? Or I may be able to watch it and pay for the privilege to see ubskippable ads? You can only beat us with so many sticks before we stop feeling it. Come back with a carrot.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's much harder when all your ISPs and the world's largest DNS resolvers block the IPs or resolving the DNS, which is what this dystopian bill proposes. Make no mistake, this is Orwellian censorship masquerading as piracy protection.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Then we have to build a community DNS 🤷🏻‍♀️ you can’t really block free internet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

It's hard and complex, but they can. And they aim to.

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

I mean, why not onion routing and tor?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

We've been able to chat with people inside failed/repressive states forever even though their governments very much want to block it. Blocking communication between people who want to talk is incredibly difficult. They can make it hard but I'm not sure they can stop it completely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

North Korea was able to stop it. Granted, they literally just don't allow any of the tech in the hands of the average person with threat of torture or death. But dystopian is as dystopian does.

I see your point, though, and it'll likely always be possible to bypass those controls, at least for people with the know-how. But that's not the average citizen. Let's do what we can to ensure it doesn't come to this in the first place.

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