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[–] 74 points 4 weeks 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

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  • [–] 62 points 4 weeks ago

    Yeah good luck with that.

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  • [–] 59 points 4 weeks ago (2 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.

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  • [–] 28 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 28 points 4 weeks ago*

    I wish I could read good news, like

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

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  • [–] 27 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)
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    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.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 weeks ago (7 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 😆

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago (5 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago

    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?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    Nah https needs a domain name

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks 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.

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  • [–] 22 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 14 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    You set your vpn to….. america??

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  • [–] 15 points 4 weeks 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.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 weeks 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.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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

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  • [–] 13 points 4 weeks ago

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

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  • [–] 10 points 4 weeks ago (2 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?

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  • [–] 8 points 4 weeks ago*

    bittorrent: lol

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

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  • 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago

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

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  • [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago

    Piracy sites are like gremlins lol

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago

    Something something terrorism and protect the childrens!

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