“would”
Yeah they try this all the time. But holy shit these comments acting like it’s already happened, and then gone into full blown USSR mode, are a bit inflammatory.
Aggressively stupid bullshit, fuck these clowns.
Meh… I don’t pirate anthing, so… non-issue from where I stand. Though I can see how this would upset a lot of people.
But you do use the dns system, right?
Speaking out against the regime is now a form of piracy and banned.
See the problem? It’s abusable.
The regime doesn’t need this buffoonery to ban freedom of speech. They’re already trying that shit regardless of piracy.
So you are okay give giving your enemy another weapon to fire at you?
What other weapon? I already said I don’t pirate anything. This is a harmless weapon to use against me.
I feel like you are so dumb you would drown in the rain by staring up at the sky I literally just gave an example that would affect you.
That you resort to ad hominem when people disagree with you shows you aren’t mature enough to discuss this in any meaningful way.
Also- it shows that I won’t be missing anthing when I block your immature ass.
No.
Wait.
Come back….
Great, no concern to anyone then because it doesn’t affect you personally. Why did you even reply?
You’re signed up here, on Lemmy, through PieFed.ca, right?
So it WILL affect you as soon as they add it to the piracy list.
“Freedom” LMAO
Free as in beer. (The citizens are the product)
My ISP wondering why I only ever access 5 servers in Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and Finland
All new media (other than documentaries) are meaningless. AI slop, propaganda, white washing or ego porn.
If you think documentaries can’t be propaganda, I have an excellent bridge for sale
Mainstream media? Sure. Leave the mainstream world and connect with indies of every kind of art. You’ll discover a whole new world.
It really is. The same open world games, the same sitcoms and movies, the same soulless music. None of it has any soul anymore, it’s not even actual expression or art…
Sounds like they want people board and mad, a historically winning combination.
Hungry soon too
Ban the RIAA and MPAA.
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.
They could also force ISPs to ban VPN IPs that don’t comply with their piracy blocking rules, regardless of whether they’re in the US.
The only way to stop it is by severing all the cables and blowing up the infrastructure. They aren’t prepared to do that.
Literally. This is not a new “fight”. These corrupt, bribes-ridden fuckers have been “fighting” piracy since the inception of the internet, and they’ve always lost, and always lose.
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.
UK already doing this to try to block 4chan. You can decide if that is a good or bad thing.
Well… bad. No government should be able to tell you what sites you’re allowed to visit
I agree, many do not.
Am I the only one who read Rash?
Yes, I did read it in Jr high so don’t expect a masterpiece but I’d say it’s pretty accurate and can be read in a day.
I pick mad max. In the end, it will come down to oil.
Mad max in 1984.
I think tank girl, and it will come down to clean water
…as opposed to the non-democratic worlds, which are already as fascist as you can get, right?
Choose your DNS provider wisely
And ensure your VPN provider isn’t headquartered in the US (or better yet any five eyes nation) nor one of the ones owned by the Israeli Billionaire Teddy Sagi who likely also has deep ties to the Israeli and US governments
TIL expressVPN started as
Crossrider started off by making a SDK for the deployment of browser extensions platforms with support for monetizing extensions. The monetization options were used by major [ad injectors which used man-in-the-browser to change or add advertisements to what users saw.
JFC.
Godamnit, I didn’t realize PIA was bought out by them. Time to switch.
Good lists of vpn providers would be appreciated.
I’ve been happy with IVPN since mullvad CEO donated a bunch of money to far right parties
I had trouble with IVPN. They didn’t have many countries/servers, and ended up being blocked.
Currently on ProtonVPN, and seems to be OK so far.
Njalla. Run by Peter Sunde.
I recently switched to windscribe.
They’re a good, solid wireguard provider.
Proton has been good for me. CEO seems like a dick but I’m gonna be honest it’s getting pretty hard to support any tech company that doesn’t have a dick CEO.
Mullvad is zero log and located in Sweden, and accepts payment in crypto to reduce traceable privacy footprint (which frankly is one of the real, relevant use-cases for crypto to further legitimate privacy needs).
Also take cash over mail
Yeah but one of the guys that owns it is the primary funder of that nutty far right political group.
Proton, mullvad, air VPN, depending on threat case. NordVPN for torrenting specifically, but not as good for privacy etc.
The most important thing is to check who owns the VPN (as the previous commentor said, stay away from Kape tech) and where it’s based (e.g., 14 eyes), as well as independent security audits and the company’s public history with government requests.
AirVPN has been great so far. Moved to it from Mullvad.
NextDNS is good and I just realised that it’s based in The US. The alternative ones don’t seem to provide the feature of granular filtering.
I use pihole+unbound right now and hoping that is unaffected
i think you have to set up DoH with unbound to make it not be in cleartext? I dunno honestly I’m a dummy, but I’m fairly sure that it’s pretty tricky to get it totally secured. I guess I don’t understand why you can’t use ubound recursively but have its root.hints pointing as something like quad9 instead of all the actual root authoritative dns servers, theres like 13 of them and more than half are the US government.
And wouldn’t you know it, anything that disagrees with the current regime is piracy.
Not just piracy. Woke piracy.
Woke piracy is the best piracy!!
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.
- ISPs leverage DNS blocking to censor
And blocking the IP address of the site in question, as well. That’s why so many “illegal” sites jump around IP addresses like a flea on a hot griddle. They’re trying to remain accessible whenever the ISP prevents direct access.
Because if you block the IP address, blocking DNS is superfluous and performative – it’s just window dressing for better optics towards politicians who don’t understand tech. DNS censorship trivially bypassible by using custom DNS servers that aren’t affected by the censorship, while IP blocking hits everyone who is under that ISP regardless of their DNS settings - they need a VPN to bypass IP blocking.
all that’s going to do is give them an excuse to block IPs outside the US by the block.
keep an eye on the FCC and any legislation they take against HAM or SDR. without that it would be difficult to have any comms outside the US.
No, IP blocking is widespread in most places, it’s just that “rights holder” lawsuits go after the domain name, first, both in terms of the registrar and DNS. They also force ISPs to block IP addresses, but this is more of a whack-a-mole prospect so it’s usually a second-order method.
I’m a bit surprised they’ve gone with piracy as an excuse - usually it’s “Think of the children!” Maybe they’ve finally figured out that we already know that republicans are thinking of (molesting) the children so they’ve fallen back on “You wouldn’t download a car”.
But surely the whole point of using the VPN is to use one that’s outside of U.S authority?
Not if you want low lacency.
IMO your main concern should be about what country the VPN is based out of (and their privacy policy) more than where the servers are located. But then again I suppose it all depends on what kind of activity you’re using your VPN for.
When I was messing around with my VPN, I was looking at translated news from Germany, France and Spain and they all have more or less different data usage policies. It’s interesting but at the same time, you can just go on a news website that a country mainly uses and translate it.
Interstingly though, when I used a VPN, it changes all the typical homepage shortcuts on Google chrome to what Germany, France and Spain uses for the main shortcuts.
