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Copyright Industry Continues Its Efforts To Ban VPNs
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How is bypassing georestrictions piracy?
Also good luck actually banning VPNs. China tried that and many people there still use them.
Fuck copyright law in general. It has done damage to humanity as a whole while making a wealthy few even richer.
Licences for media are country specific. So vpns allow you to circumvent that. I don't beleive it's piracy. But it's....something.
That made sense at a time when media was physical and could be stopped at the border. There are no border posts in the internet.
So now we could either a) make the copyright industry draw up new licenses that make sense for the internet, or b) make everyone else spend billions to create and suffer border posts in the internet.
Or c) abolish copyright law entirely.
That's actually part of the motivation behind russian internet isolation, their head bitch leading the charge on it believes that the internet "violates the existence of borders in the world".
Yeah it's outdated. But should the worldwide license cost the same as the licence just for lithuania? What if you were a small upstart just trying to do something online for your local community? Or a school hosting licenced media for study purposes.
While you are right there are theoretically no borders on the internet. They can be built, Netflix US or Netflix AUS for instance are geo blocking so they can pay smaller licences. And that is their right just as much as it is for a school which is fenced with a .edu login. At least in copyright laws current iteration. Who should be responsible for an outside actor getting access?
Fun to think about.