cupcakezealot comments on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 29 points 1 year ago (7 children)

they actually do think that if you stop piracy people will flock back to streaming services when in reality all that will happen is i'll just watch more twitch.

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[–] Sickday@kbin.earth 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

i'd just go to a local fast food resturant and bring my portable piracy machine

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[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Then they'll lobby against public WiFi. I was in China recently and (depending on the province) you need a phone number to access public WiFi so that they know who you are.

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[–] ManOMorphos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I hope that this doesn't come to the US. Even now, a lot of the available Wifi hotspots are from cable companies (which require their account logins, so they definitely will know who you are).

Would giving a throwaway VOIP number that's untraceable to someone fool that kind of service, I wonder? Unless caught right away, they would probably have to get their identity on an individual basis.

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[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

In China there is no such thing as a throwaway number (at least outside of black markets). All numbers require ID to acquire.

For the US it would be a bit different. VOIP numbers do exist but they are often also blocked by services (this isn't black and white but there are services that will quite accurately map numbers into ranges like home/cell/business/VoIP).

But of course the assumption would be that if they start requiring phone numbers for WiFi access the logical next step would be to make all numbers traceable to humans.

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