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A renewed attempt to introduce site blocking in the U.S. emerged in late January when U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D) introduced the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act. The FADPA bill received the MPA's full support, and it now transpires that similar legislation is being prepared by U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R). A recent meeting to discuss the 'American Copyright Protection Act' was attended by Disney, Paramount, and Amazon, plus Google, YouTube, and Verizon.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

So it's SOPA 2.0 but it has a chance of passing because of a wild government that has no dignity.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Great to see US politicians, on both sides of the aisle, focusing on the most important priorities for their constituents.

/s, in case it isn’t obvious

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

I mean, they are focusing on their constituents in this case.

The ones who pay they millions of dollars in "campaign contributions"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

indeed. Not like they dont have a bigger issue with their government lterally dissolving before their eyes. I wonder how they expect to uphold this when DOGE finishes its amazingly competent efforts at 'efficiency'

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Oh don't worry, the parts of the government that benefit the rich and corporations I'm sure they will find a way to salvage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Good cop steps back and lets bad cop have a turn.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If you don't have a VPN, it's time to fire one up. I'd suggest Mullvad or Windscribe.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

since this is targeted at pirates, I'd actually stay away from mullvad since they got rid of port forwarding

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've never had an issue pirating anything with Mullvad.

[–] IronKrill 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

IIRC port forwarding is more of a problem with seeding than leeching.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

This, if you're present on any private trackers you really need the port forwarding feature.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Are the compatible with pihole? Last time I tried getting a VPN, setting up pihole on it was a nightmare.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

They done took my book telegram