• Kumatomic
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      282 years ago

      *Looks at the 4 busted ass appliances, that were built to fall, I bought brand new 3 years ago that are barely clinging onto life. * Consumer protection huh? What a concept.

    • Fedora
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      152 years ago

      … from committing the severe crime of copyright infringement, of course!

    • @[email protected]
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      102 years ago

      Glad to see someone else have the exact reaction I did. They know this has nothing to do with consumer protections. Thats just blatant, bold-face lying.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 years ago

      Oh thank the heavens, someone is here to save us guys!!! The corporate greed and multiple wars going on aren’t important right now, at least we are safe from free media!

  • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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    442 years ago

    Cool so we are going to nationalize the film industry? Force consolidation of streaming services? Treat entertainment like a utility and fix their rates with a tariff? No? Then fuck off

      • @[email protected]
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        82 years ago

        I’m not in the US, so no problem! But thanks for letting me know what else to look out for :)

      • Kevnyon
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        72 years ago

        Oh my God, thanks for the heads up! As a European, I would most definitely want to avoid visiting these sites, as I obviously respect copyright law to its full extent! Now I can add them to my (block) list!

  • @[email protected]
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    262 years ago

    Goddammit Ted Lieu, you are for encryption and data privacy but you’re against media sharing?

    • @[email protected]
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      492 years ago

      He’s for whoever pays him money… bunch of dirty greedy fuckwads who have zero concept of how the average person lives. Piracy wouldn’t be a problem if companies were providing easy access for a low price. It had dropped quite a bit when netflix was the only option and they weren’t charging extortion fees and raising them every couple months.

      • DebatableRaccoon
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        102 years ago

        Not to mention the insane amount of exclusivity going on now and even the stupidity of certain features of the service not being available in certain areas. I stopped paying for Netflix when I got it from a rep that because I was living in a non-English-speaking country that I couldn’t have access to the English voice track of a show I wanted to watch.

        Subscriptions are the next iteration of the console wars. They bank on exclusives instead of designing the best user experience and selling themselves on merit alone.

  • @[email protected]
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    72 years ago

    I feel like this would just push more nontechies to learn how to be better pirates. It would do very little to stop piracy.

    • @[email protected]
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      102 years ago

      Only way to stop piracy is to make it easier and cheaper to buy the goods legitimately in all corners of the world. Since that won’t be happening, and since so much content is an outright gamble if it’s even any good, piracy will continue to grow.

    • FlavoredButtHair
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      12 years ago

      When one site gets blocked 10 more pop up. More people just need to learn about VPN use.

  • krolden
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    12 years ago

    I always find it funny how theyre always calling to ban the most surface level piracy sites or just whatever gets a lot of media attention like the pirate bay.

    The seas are so deep they can never drain it all, nor do they intend to. Its just to keep that riaa and MPA campaign funds flowing.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yep, and even if they managed to block indexers, you can always open up any torrent client with DHT search and find torrents in a fully distributed and P2P way. I used to have magnetico crawling DHT and connected to my *arrstack as a backup so it’s pretty straightforward to not rely on any central blockable website for torrents.