Technology

Ban the RIAA and MPAA.

My ISP wondering why I only ever access 5 servers in Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and Finland

Sounds like they want people board and mad, a historically winning combination.

Aggressively stupid bullshit, fuck these clowns.

There is a surprisingly good amount of free games and movies, it would actually save me time if they were to "ban vpns"

This leads to the government deciding which websites you can visit and cant visit down the line. This is a dystopian level of control and with surveillance already getting dystopian… Pick your dystopian technology book and decide which one we’re leading towards. Fascism policies are already on the rise in democratic worlds.

Great, more boomers who can't understand how the internet works.

Choose your DNS provider wisely

Like this will ever work. lol. Just don’t get VPN from a company that is headquartered in the US. Problem solved. There are a million other ways to bypass this. There will ALWAYS be away, they’re just trying to make it harder for the experienced, and impossible for your average Joe.

political theater. won't happen because it's unenforceable.

• VPNs operate outside of federal control
• ISPs leverage DNS blocking to censor which is laughable
• DNS exists outside of the US

if this does happen, IF, it has nothing to do with IP rights or protecting Americans. it has everything to do with censoring what the majority of common Americans read online. this is the first step towards blocking news outlets that won't regurgitate whitehouse directives.

If piracy was a problem I can find them multiple international corporations that are well know for using copyrighted content to train their LLM without paying for it or having permission from the owner of that content.

US on the way to become a less free country than China lol

This goes far deeper than just "piracy". Everyone's favourite section 1201 of the DMCA also means that this bill will result in the US blocking foreign sites which explain to you how to fix your shit if you have to bypass even the most inane digital lock.

That's the whole point of VPN providers. They're not in your jurisdiction.

Yeah, good luck with enforcing that to foreign VPN providers, you dumb fucks.

Sounds like another assault on freedom of speech.

Well, time to protest, and if need be, use the constitution how it was intended.

And wouldn't you know it, anything that disagrees with the current regime is piracy.

"Freedom" LMAO

We're just not allowed to use computers in any way that actually benefits us, anymore? Digital prison man.

But surely the whole point of using the VPN is to use one that's outside of U.S authority?

Darrell Issa out of California appears to have proposed this, I assume because he is not seeking re-election.

Who wants to take a bet he is getting paid for it?