New Bill Aims To Block Foreign Pirate Sites in the US 66
U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren has introduced a bill that would allow courts to block access to foreign websites primarily engaged in copyright infringement. The Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act would enable rightsholders to obtain injunctions requiring large Internet service providers and DNS resolvers to block access to pirate sites.
The bill marks a shift from previous site-blocking proposals, notably including DNS providers like Google and Cloudflare with annual revenues above $100 million. Motion Picture Association CEO Charles Rivkin backed the measure, while consumer group Public Knowledge criticized it as "censorious." The legislation requires court review and due process before any blocking orders can be issued. Sites would have 30 days to contest preliminary orders.
The bill marks a shift from previous site-blocking proposals, notably including DNS providers like Google and Cloudflare with annual revenues above $100 million. Motion Picture Association CEO Charles Rivkin backed the measure, while consumer group Public Knowledge criticized it as "censorious." The legislation requires court review and due process before any blocking orders can be issued. Sites would have 30 days to contest preliminary orders.
Next step (Score:3)
Trump applies tariffs to The Pirate Bay.
Re: Next step (Score:1, Troll)
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Even more to the point, why does it matter to you? Why would you want to lie to someone purposefully and what kind of person are you if you can live with yourself after?
Re: Next step (Score:1)
Not in this country it isn't. Fraud and slander are both illegal. Fact is an absolute defense against slander or libel here, though.
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That's a lie.
Another way to look at it is you are free to say what you want.
Unlike in other countries the US government will not arrest you.
However, you are not free from the consequences of that free speech. Alex Jones and Rudy Giuliani are recent high-profile examples. If through your free speech you defame me, I will sue you and take every nickel you have.
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Biden’s economy was good. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/... [cnbc.com]
Maybe stop watching fake news.
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Re: Next step (Score:1)
People choosing to stay home isn't voter suppression, just apathy, stupidity, and ignorance.
Troll doesn't mean "this makes me sad" (Score:1)
But if you troll modded that comment, it does make you a Russian actor.
https://www.wired.com/story/ru... [wired.com]
https://www.reuters.com/world/... [reuters.com]
Let's keep this going (Score:2)
I have more karma than you have modpoints, unless you're an "editor" in which case I want to make that abundantly obvious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
https://www.nbcnews.com/politi... [nbcnews.com]
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>> "Biden trashed the economy"
No cites means you are lying.
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Are the eggs cheaper now than they were back then? Asking for a friend in the US, who complains they now cost even more.
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But trump did blame Biden, and his minions did too. Now its nobody's fault?
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He said he would bring down inflation on day one. https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/28... [cnn.com]
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lol go for it, I’ll always find a way to avoid paying US companies for anything - including media - from now on.
Sigh (Score:2)
Another one?
Okay, good luck with this one too.
I'm in my 40's and I've never yet seen an effective solution to software, audio or video "piracy".
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Re:Sigh (Score:5, Insightful)
There is a solution. Reasonable pricing. No annoying DRM or marketplace agents. Buy once, own forever.
It is when media publishers try to tighten their grip, the more people slip away to the high seas.
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Reasonable pricing? Blaspheme! This is Pluta!
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or maybe the site-killing weapon they're building "for piracy" isn't just about piracy
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The dark web is 7900tb and Growing... Surface web is 25tb approx., by comparison. They never learn....
Those numbers are completely made up bullshit. The regular internet is currently estimated to be several zettabytes in size. That's millions of terabytes. The dark webs is currently estimated to be 0.01% of the internet in size, roughly 100 gigabytes.
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. I'd also contest the numbers (AI hallucination, or comparing apples and oranges
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The AI answer you linked to is just plain wrong. Just read what it says, its total nonsense.
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According to most estimates, the dark web is significantly smaller than the entire internet, representing only a tiny fraction, with the "deep web" (which includes the dark web) holding around 7,500 terabytes of data compared to the surface web's 19 terabytes, meaning the dark web is likely less than 1% of the total internet size in terms of data storage
TL;DR: In the same sentence, the AI says the Dark Web is
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I'm guessing they just got their notation wrong on the 25tb part. I mean my RAID array at home is more than 25TB and I don't think I can store "the internet" on it . . .
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Glad to see congress working on urgent matters (Score:5, Insightful)
Why work on things such as healthcare, fiscal budget, homelessness, unemployment, etc when you can work on another anti-piracy bill that wont work...
Re:Glad to see congress working on urgent matters (Score:4, Informative)
Because that's what they get paid for. The congresscritters are not answerable to the people who need the things you list, they are answerable to the people who give them larger "contributions" and other legal bribes.
Quite simple, really, their incentives are all wrong and it shows.
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Because the plutocrats of Big Media want it and they have deep pockets to bribe law makers via legal campaign donations, thanks in part to the GOP Scotus with their free "gifted" RV's and vacations.
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Because they have to protect their Hollywood mega donors. It’s amazing how software companies don’t get the kind of protection that Hollywood does.
It'll never be misused by large corporations... (Score:2)
... just like the DMCA.
The Irony Machine (Score:2)
The foreign crooks the law-makers want to target are likely using zombie'd computers that are inside the USA, as spam filters often give foreign IP addresses more scrutiny. I bet some of those law-makers' own PC's are serving pirated content.
DNS Providers (Score:2)
They can have my /etc/hosts file when they pry it out of my cold, dead hands.
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Back when I was running Windows 7, the virus scanner I used blocked/disabled the hosts file as an anti-spoofing measure. I can't remember if I ever found a solution to that before I abandoned Windows anyway.
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Don't give the plutoMob ideas.
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Wrong!
The beginning (Score:2)
of the Great Firewall of America.
It will be sold as a tool to protect Americans from unamerican foreign contents.
only the beginning (Score:2)
"Congress and its allies in the entertainment industry has decided to build out a sweeping infrastructure for censorship"
If they get this in place there will be many subsequent bills banning large swathes of web content that are in any way related to whatever the GOP doesn't happen to like today.
'FADPA and similar ‘site-blocking’ proposals would give Big Content the internet killswitch it has sought for decades. Copyright is hotly contested and infamously easy to use as a cudgel against free spe
They block pirate site, but not China hacker's IP (Score:2)
Later Zoe (Score:2)
Good luck getting re-elected.
ChYna feerz US bills (Score:1)
Give me a break. The copyright mafiaa and their well-paid congresscritters are just more pigfuckers sucking their own dicks.
China doesn't care about US laws.
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