Democrat teams up with movie industry to propose website-blocking law
Lofgren's bill would impose site-blocking requirements on broadband providers with at least 100,000 subscribers and providers of public domain name resolution services with annual revenue of over $100 million. The bill has exemptions for VPN services and "similar services that encrypt and route user traffic through intermediary servers"; DNS providers that offer service "exclusively through encrypted DNS protocols"; and operators of premises that provide Internet access, like coffee shops, bookstores, airlines, and universities.
Invest in VPN providers.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/movie-industry-loves-bill-that-would-force-isps-to-block-piracy-websites/Open linkView original on lemmy.sdf.org370
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Really uh...
Setting themselves up for success uh..
TBH they can't really pass anything even if they wanted to focus on more important issues. Majority Leaders call votes and they're both Republicans.
Democrat*
Singular, in this case.
Democrats: "Please for the love of God, don't vote for us ever again! We really, really don't want to win."
Lemmy: "Fuck that, I'll vote blue no matter who. You can't tell me what to do"
Democrats:
D E M O C R A T singular, one. Not democrats. For fucks sake it's on the bloody title!
Why are people so willfully ignorant?
Cause people fail to awknowledge there is more to politics than just left and right, or progressive and conservative, etc.
Trump is president and this is their priority?
Of course it is, what else would you expect from the controlled opposition party?
Why wouldn't it be? People's interests don't bring in money
Corporate dictatorship masquerading as "democracy"
I don't think it's even corporate now. There are oligopolies/monopolies in each sector already
The shepherd and the dog might be in agreement.
Democrats: why won't anyone vote for us?
Also Democrats: let's be like the Republicans, they get so many votes! Let's miss the entire point of democracy and just support large companies!
Because they want the big money donors more than they want to win. Their campaigns are above all designed to bring in money for the high-priced consultants.
Lofgren is a corporate stooge is the message I'm getting.
Democrats once again losing on purpose.
This somehow reads with the same energy as those "please don't download scientific papers for free from , that would be so terrible" posts.
77 year old who has been in the house since the 90s. Actually a prime example of why we need term limits and real competition in elections (if not from GOP, at least in primaries). Irony is she reps a district that isn't really associated with streaming or producing movies.
My guess? She won her primary because she was the incombent or was unopposed, but she probably receives cash from the film industry. Almost all house seats are uncompetitive unless someone drops out or gets redistricted. Until something changes, this is and will be the way our government continues to work.
Oh so carrying the torch for the LAST time they tried to go after media with the moral panic of "Explicit" music label stuff led by Tipper Gore? The one where Twisted Sister showed up in 1985. A continuation from when they had a panic about VHS recordings in 1969 and Mr Rogers testified.
I specially went Obama over Clinton because she was still saying in 2008 how video games promote violence. There's a certain type of Dem, and they're still ramming them down our throats.
I swear. The harder they mess with this type of stuff the more single-issue-voters it pushes to vote against them. This war on media is such a losing battle I don't understand why they're opting to wage it with the current fish on the grill. This kind of unpopular legislation is stuff you try and push when you're in power, and try to sell it as an "eat your veggies" moment. Rebranding while they're down certainly makes for an interesting conversation when they rubber band back into power and say "we've said we were gonna do this since 2025" type conversation.
Sometimes I feel like democrats don't actually care more about voters, they just care much more about appearances.
Idk man, that sounds like evidence based thinking to me, reported.
And rich people
Even out of power they still find a way to give hand jobs for industry donations and casually screw the public. I admire their energy.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Don't settle for half measures.
"Man we really got trounced in that election "
"Yeah we should really work on our image"
"Yeah. Oh I know! You know how everyone hated that tik tok ban?"
"Yeah?"
"Well what if that, but more!"
"But people hated the ban...."
"Oh right, no, the movie industry is paying us to do this."
"Oh why didn't you just say so."
On the one hand, more Dems voted no on tiktok ban
On the other hand, you can bet any bipartisan bill is not in the interest of the American people
If they are not blocking the access to the WHO.is servers you can get the IP address of the site and add it to your local hosts file.
Doesn't the IP address change anyway?
Some do and some don't. Even if the IP changes, the actual IP address will be shown on the WHOIS site. Alternatively, I am sure that the actual IP address of these sites is shared by non-American users on forums and other sites.
Just use a VPN service at that point. VPNs also have the upside of your ISP not being able to see you visiting piracy websites.
After the US does this, Europe will be soon to follow guaranteed, then everyone will be trying to pipe through the same VPN exit server in Barbados
We already have site blocking in France.
oh cool, tackling the key issues facing us right now
Is the capability to block any website something the Democrats want to enable with for Trump to abuse?
Yes, then they can blame him for it but still get paid by the oligarchs who wanted the bill.
Seriously.
This is a shit shit back to front now.
These people were everyone's hope? LMAO 🤣
Article 1) Streaming prices going up Article 2) websites being blocked
This is some dumb shit.
I'm guessing lofgren has already done that
Wait until they start "the VPN wars". it's invariable at this point. Only the VPN that has bribed The Emperor the most will survive.
*inevitable
yeah today's been a day
Just what we needed.
Giant meteor is what we need.
99942 Apophis is scheduled to come visit for a near pass on Friday, April 13, 2029. It briefly held the highest rating of any object ever on the Torino scale when it was discovered 20 years ago. Another asteroid detected just last week is currently a Torino 3 but also won't be here for 7 years and only has a 1.4% chance of striking Earth based on current observations.
Can't help but wonder if it's bad luck if it hits us, or bad luck if it misses us at this point.
(/s shit's fucked but I still prefer getting missed)
Cockroaches using the government to make oppressive laws. I think I'm still ancap.
Yes those government movie studios
its uh, definitely one of the feelings of all time reading through threads like this, assuming these are actual real people, spending their actually real time, talking about these actually real things.
This is some fascist (& not at all surprising) shit.
I'm missing the part where consumers are required to use their ISP DNS. I never do, in favour of CloudFlare DNS, Google DNS, etc
Whoever wrote this bill probably lacks the basic network skills to know you can do that.
@SquiffSquiff @some_guy They do that here to some degree. ISP's DNS give a shitty warning about pirating if you try to visit any of the normal places for that kind of thing. Personally i just use a local DNS over HTTPS server. Which reminds me I need to see if he/she would like a donation.
@some_guy is there such a thing as an open source dns and encrypted DNS? Or federated DNS?
It's actually surprisingly centralized.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System#Structure
It sort if have to be. In the end there has to be one source of truth for each TLD, otherwise who is to say who owns foo.com, and what it resolves to?
And then the same structure for assigning TLD ownership.
But there is nothing stopping you from running another DNS service, call it DNS2 with different root servers, etc. It is just going to be extemely hard to convince people to use it.
I use a self hosted pihole for DNS. It needs an upstream DNS server for resolving unchached dns's. I have pihole point to quad9 then cloudflair then google then I have it point to a bunch of unfiltered DNS servers across the world.
Pihole also let's you install unbound. Your own recursive resolver. So you don't have to rely on google or quad9 etc.
https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/
Cool I might do that. I assume I can find a docker compose somewhere.
They're absolutely is, it's called onion routing, get around DNS blocks with tor as long as you know where you're going.
Fuck. How bad is this...??
Is this going to take out VPNs as well?
So it help vpn stocks?
When you forgot to educate your people well enough so you don't have to worry about what they see.
Why would you not quote the first paragraph that explains everything about the law?
TBH it's not that bad since it doesn't affect VPNs or domestic piracy sites, ironically. It's bad but it's not the apocalypse like some other commenters suggest.
Just a step in the direction towards that, though. They'll pass it, and people will still pirate. Then, they'll claim the legislation wasn't enough and pass another bill further encroaching on our freedom on the internet.
Maybe, but for now she doesn't have a single co-sponsor. LINK TO THE BILL
The fact that this dumb bitch is trying to do this, a blatant violation of open internet ideas btw, as the technocracy makes its opening moves is the real problem.
I'm not sure where you've been hiding but Net Neutrality got struck down when we voted Fascists into power, so maybe cool it with blaming the dems for that one, pal.
I'm only blaming the Dems that support and author the decline.
But you should clarify you want people to vote for them anyways because any Democrat is better than any Republican.
Incorrect, as demonstrated.
Some Democrats are just Republicans that are lying.
Okay.... And that helps anyone how? Where's the other foot? I would like to help? I have a sledge hammer! C'mon don't be shy.
But, I got ideas! How about everyone who files for a patent has to give the Democratic party all their money or how autocorrect wants, all their monkey! That'll show them!
And how about everyone who goes to and graduates from college must serve a 30 year sentence? Fabulous!
Need a car license? Just smash your car on this steel wall! Yey! So easy! So much better than racists!
WTF! Put the thinking cap back on dudes!