Trying to force ISP’s to police their user’s internet traffic, as a means to stop piracy, is phenomenally stupid. All they’ve managed to do is make the internet worse for the average user while forcing a dramatic increase in the sophistication of piracy technology.
Hell, I would argue that the state and quality of pirated media is in some ways the best it’s ever been and the recording and film industries have indirectly contributed to that. Talk about irony.
Internet shutoff orders (including for nonpayment) should require a court approval IMO.
Agreed. I don’t understand why internet access gets treated as some sort of luxury when it is impossible to function as part of society without it.
Probably because if we admit that it’s a necessity of the modern age like power and water, it would basically need to be metered like a utility, and there goes all the profits with flat rate “up to” speed pricing that most people don’t even remotely use.
They know what they are doing. They are just trying to make enough hurdles to ensure normies don’t switch.
Piracy is deff on the rise but I doubt it will go mainstream and that’s what’s need to properly punish these rent seekers
Sure might be on the rise but still down from its peak.
streaming services were good, most of us just paid for it during that time many people lost the skills and wills to do the job.
gonna take a while for people to get properly pissed to retrain.
Thats what I think is funny about the whole thing. They’d effectively won against piracy then were like “cool everyone is paying now LETS FUCKIN DRAIN THE SLUTS”
Fuck record labels, having an internet connection is a basic human right.
I barely trust my VPN but it’s far more reliable than any “rights”.
Next, Google will sue Comcast because they allow users to watch YouTube videos over Newpipe.
NewPipe is legal though
Potato/tomato.
I guess they did DMCA source code for legal software (youtube-dl). But long live yt-dlp
At the end of the day, all these huge tech firms have left is to try and fuck with the people that know better and are looking to get off from under their thumb. Google is going to keep trying to break every workaround we use, so will Microsoft, Meta, Apple and every single ad-ridden and anti-privacy company out there.
However, just look around. People are waking up. The Lemmy communities just keep growing, more and more people are eliminating their mainstream social media and Google accounts. That fuck-up on Friday worldwide will have many companies reevaluating if it’s worth it to remain on Windows. In short, the internet revolution has already started, and it will hit critical mass at some point (5 years, 10 years, hard to tell).
This is the reason why so many companies are lobbying (which I see just as a pretty word for bribing) to scan before encryption and making it law. They know their golden egg goose is finally dying.
I finally got all my family and friends on Simplex, and they in turn are getting their friends onto it as well. I’m very happy with what I’m seeing.
Someone should sue the Roads Company for not stopping speeding and exchange of mp3 CDs.
