Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites

Isn’t it fucking crazy that “industry demands ____” is likely to come to fruition, but “group of individuals demands XYZ” isn’t likely to change shit?

I demand better living conditions. We all demand an economy that doesn’t favor the rich. Not shit will change.

Companies “demand” shit and then just literally write the laws and hand them to legislators who pass them.

From the article...

He also told the audience that pirate-site operators "aren't teenagers playing an elaborate prank. The perpetrators are real-life mobsters, organized crime syndicates—many of whom engage in child pornography, prostitution, drug trafficking, and other societal ills.

I'm honestly surprised they didn't throw the word 'terrorist' into that description as well.

Service Provider

Not Service Regulator

They shouldn’t have any knowledge of what websites people visit

Basically demands lawmakers for ISPs implement censorship tools.

Block piracy websites with what? Dns resolver?

And when people demand living wages, or properly priced housing, or affordable food, that shit doesn't matter right?

Fuck the movie industry.

They were doing just fine until people started to hate theatres and so their main source of ripping people off faded away.

Piracy websites should add a copy of the U.S. Constitution to their websites. Just slap a "/constitution.html" on the site.

Then, if the MPA succeeds, we can talk about how the U.S. Government is blocking access to hundreds/thousands of copies of the Constitution online.

Wage theft and fraud poses a larger threat to the economy. Rather than hiring 20 million dollars of internet policing to save zero dollars of the economy could we get 20 million dollars of police that prosecute fraudsters and shitty employers?

Hmmm, yes. Build a whole generation of tech savvy people with knowledge of VPNs and that activelly hate your guts. I cannot foresee any way this could backfire.

Cool. Now all of Google Drive is blocked because one guy hosted a movie there for a few days.

Imagine how much money the movie industry would have if it stopped wasting time and effort on the false idea that 1 download = 1 lost sale.

an industry which throws away finished movies because they don't want to spend the money to release it?

yeah nah, you're disqualified from an opinion on piracy.

Okay, I’ll use my own DNS provider

"They are deying us our Corporate Right to Profit!!!"

I mean, good luck with that. Pirate bay is never going down at this point.

I demand laws requiring the movie industries to throw any IPs they don't want to use or any movies they don't give reasonable and simple access straight into the public domain

Fuck 'em. Pirate more.

Instead of being contempt with one yacht, they're gonna do what they can to have zero.

When A24 and state run film studios like Vicscreen are the only ones making anything remotely worth the box office, you have a problem, and burning down the barn to stop the foxes from all those delicious hens aren't gonna fix it. Just more socialized losses.

Oh no, now I will have to pay $50/mo to re-watch marvel movie 832 and an action movie where the main character has to go on a 2hr quest for revenge after someone shot their pet.

...I barely watch movies anymore, there's not been a ton of great new stuff imo. I'm so sick of subscriptions, too.

Hahahahaha

Unintended consequences - what are they going to do once 90% of connections are encrypted, include use of VPNs and encrypted DNS?

This is what they're promoting.

Host your own encrypted DNS on a VPS in a non-compliant location, use a VPN to connect to it.

So many ways these idiots are cutting their own throats.

Also, let's list the companies rather than say "Movie Industry". Or let that be a link to a Wiki article listing all the companies and their holdings.

Fuck em all at this point. I go to maybe 2 movies a year, at most. And I'm cutting subscription services, down to 2 at this point.

Frankly combining the recent and less recent events - I think fuck them.

I can understand selling a book or a movie and it being theft to download a copy. It's at least logically consistent - you show someone something with a condition that they pay you, it's dishonest to look and not pay.

But owning characters and universes and their names and so on?

And these laws not being used against "AI" firms?

All at the same time?

No. Right is about compromise. They don't do that, so we don't owe them anything. And let them obey what is made for their benefit first.

Tor Tor Tor Tor Tor that's the way the vpn goes.

(In the cadence of the thong song)

Legally guaranteed corporate profits, with enforcement funded by taxpayers.

We should abolish this practice.

What year is this? 2008?!? Now we have Netflix and piracy is not a problem, right? Oooohhhh right they decided to kill the golden egg chicken but they still want the eggs