France Escalates War on Sports Piracy with Real-Time IP Blocking * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 11 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] Mondez@lemdro.id 26 points 11 months ago

Won't someone think of the billion dollar businesses?

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 11 months ago

I don’t really sympathize with the government or media producers on this one, but I do see it’s a challenging problem they’ve built up in their mind. However, legalizing at-will censorship is not a great way to address this

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 9 points 11 months ago

It'll just drive people to IPTV via VPN

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

They'll go after the VPNs next

[-] andybytes@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago

That'll be pretty interesting because virtual private networks are nothing but like ....where did they come from.. they came from the corporate sector.

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 points 11 months ago

That's alright, the good ones don't store anything for them to go after.

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

That's what I mean. Look what happened with mullvad

[-] andybytes@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

I mean I don't subscribe to any services and I don't even pirate that much anymore. I just don't give a fuck about anything anymore. Everything has just become so fucking adversarial and depressing. Like we have such a limp dick future. It is so depressing seeing the type of leadership in this world that you know, who the fuck needs a story for... I mean it's just so sad reality. It's such a shit show. The types of movies that people are putting out. I mean the music. Everything sucks. Like I don't want to steal your garbage. I don't want to watch your garbage. Like, there's just nothing worth stealing anymore.

[-] jmf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

I just can't get behind this mentality. Yes things aren't great in a lot of ways, but there is still great amounts of creativity and innovation all around us. If you stick to algorithms and pop culture to find it, you will be disappointed, but if you put some work in to find gems among the artists at work today, you can still find very inspiring work.

[-] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Pretty ironic considering they don't play any sports of their own.

[-] shades@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

Sure would be good if people by and large just stopped watching sports because of this bullshit.

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