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[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 73 points 6 days ago

Fucking Darryl Issa again?

This motherfucker has been trying to censor and cripple the internet for like 25 years

Fuck off dude, you’re the terrorist

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 61 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Issa argued that online piracy helps fund terrorist groups and other criminal networks.

Gotta play the "Everything I don't like is 'terrrorism'. " card, naturally. I wonder if it hurts when you have the collective hand of media conglomerates shoved up your ass like a sock puppet.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 84 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] seaturtle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

This political cartoon is from years ago, isn't it? Somehow it's evergreen.

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 63 points 6 days ago

Yeah good luck with that.

[–] DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 50 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

JD Vance was all in until he realized it wasn't SOFA.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 14 points 6 days ago

https://beige.party/@intransitivelie/117057396732763183

I regret to inform everyone that my copy of QBittorrent escaped its sandbox last night and downloaded a whole bunch of content owned by major corporations, and then my copy of Jellyfin broke containment and added those unfortunately-downloaded media files to its various libraries. I'm conducting an internal investigation to figure out how this happened, which will involve consuming these media files until the answers become apparent. Thank you for your cooperation during this trying time.

[–] Arola@sh.itjust.works 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Maybe the bill will get an amendment. Maybe a 2nd amendment is required.

[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 days ago

A 2nd amendment, by a 2nd player, let's name it "Luigi" or smth.

[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 18 points 6 days ago (2 children)

“Foreign websites pirating American movies, TV shows, art, and books steal tens of billions of dollars from the US economy each year,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) said at the time.

How do i steal money you not have? Please tell me, i need to steal 10 billion from myself.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

create a billion copies of TV show

company looses X billion dollars

buy company for pennies on the dollar

delete billion copie company gains X billion dollars

I am now a billionaire

[–] chahk@beehaw.org 2 points 5 days ago

He should have a chat with Meta, OpenAI, and other megacorps that trained all their models on pirated content.

[–] arules@retrofed.com 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I wish I could read good news, like

Sharers woke up, Republicans have been composted, Blackbeard installs MetroNets at every home.

[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh no, not DNS, however will I get to my desired sites?? DNS isn't the only way. It's just the most obvious or easiest, but we'll let them keep thinking that 😆

[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not like you could go to domain registrar. Or to the host company.

[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

DNS is like a post office or delivery company. They all have databases of who lives where so they can match a home address to a name.

DNS isn't required per se, you can "deliver" traffic directly or through another delivery service... If "https://website.com/" has a domain address of 111.222.33.44, you could also just type that into your browser URL bar like https://111.222.33.44/ and DNS isn't (or at least shouldn't be) touched.

I know. You can add host and ip to os host file and bypass dns.

But instead of go to person actually responsible for dns entry, domain registrar, they go to dns resolver? And also not go to server host or reverse proxy (cloudflare) which actual cause distribute?

[–] loppwn@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Nah https needs a domain name

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] loppwn@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

Thanks for correcting me. I researched it, its a quite new feature from letsencrypt (dont know if this was possible from other services) https://letsencrypt.org/2026/01/15/6day-and-ip-general-availability

[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 1 points 6 days ago

Huh, you're right! Guess I haven't done that in a long while lol. I tested to Google.com IP address and the http request redirects to https so it did work technically, but I'm guessing not many sites will handle that correctly or all the time.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh no! I might have to switch my VPN to a server in a different country! That could take nearly half a minute!

[–] bertlewirth@lemy.lol 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

You set your vpn to….. america??

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 15 points 6 days ago

It works fine (for now), and you get slightly faster speeds/lower pings with a server that's geographically closer.

That said, I'm very close to Canada, so that would be the obvious next choice if the US starts blocking shit.

I do, it's faster

also it has 0 cosponsors, is stuck in committee, mike johnson sent everyone home so they couldn't vote on hegseth's impeachment, and issa is retiring at the end of the year... so it's pretty moot.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

bittorrent: lol

also who the fuck is using a vpn operating in the us?

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 13 points 6 days ago

and meanwhile my qbt is hotdoging it (seeding linux ISOs)

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So the expensive infrastructure for DPI that that takes, who's going to pay for that? And just where are you going to buy it? China?

[–] thejml@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, they're likely already doing it for surveillance of their citizens anyway.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago

Surveillance is cheap, filtering/blocking with DPI is not, and has plenty of false positives, see Russia.

[–] MeetMeAtTheMovies@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I’ve actually memorized a couple movies and can watch them for free in my head. Does that count as thought crime?

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 days ago

Oh sure. You can crime anything with thoughts.

[–] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago

Piracy sites are like gremlins lol

[–] Sapphy@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago

Couldn’t people circumvent that by not hosting piracy sites in that country and by using a VPN based outside the imperial core?

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago

Something something terrorism and protect the childrens!