I think i2p may see a big uptick in usage then.
That’s the whole point of VPN providers. They’re not in your jurisdiction.
The Corrupt Empire of America at it again.
US on the way to become a less free country than China lol
well on the way
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.
We’re just not allowed to use computers in any way that actually benefits us, anymore? Digital prison man.
In any country. Which is already nudging me in the direction of buying some land and weapons, set up some kind of a farm and let humanity fuck itself however it wants. Big problem though: land and weapons cost way more than I can afford
Land of the free, huh?
Yeah, good luck with enforcing that to foreign VPN providers, you dumb fucks.
Next step is blocking access to foreign VPN providers. They are dumb fucks, but they are persistent dumb fucks.
Double VPN? VPS in Europe? Tor?
Life… Finds a way. Piracy too.
I think so too - we and many others won’t have an issue getting whatever we need. But the broad masses might not, and this legislation also aims at things like repair instructions and tools to fix your shit thanks to Section 1201 of the DMCA.
Yes, exactly the point: first take access to information from most people. Then slowly close the trap more and more tight
Obviously those will then be blocked entirely.
I got a disconnect for alleged piracy, all it did was give me completely free internet when I bypassed it.
And the government folks, especially in the current admin full of DOGE boys and crypto bros, are even dumber than the corpos who can;t get anything right.
Sure, obviously. These idiots can’t even tie their own shoes without assistants. But sure.
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.
The only way to stop it is by severing all the cables and blowing up the infrastructure. They aren’t prepared to do that.
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.
I pick mad max. In the end, it will come down to oil.
Mad max in 1984.
Am I the only one who read Rash?
…as opposed to the non-democratic worlds, which are already as fascist as you can get, right?
“Freedom” LMAO
Great, more boomers who can’t understand how the internet works.
It’s a series of tubes.
This doesn’t stem from a lack of understanding. It’s about corporations and control.
We need to stop believing the boomer’s framing that they’re all old and dumb, and start realizing that they’d eat us if we tasted good
Given all the cute sentient animals humans gleefully consume, your words ring true.
Those cute sentient animals would eat us too if they were sapient. And we tasted good.
The difference is we pretend to be better than then, we know better and can usually do something about it.
I’m doing my part by only eating animals that are assholes
Can’t have those small-time AI startups gathering training data like the big boys do.
No, we’re at the point where the people pushing these laws do understand how the Internet works, and they want to control all of it.
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.
Good lists of vpn providers would be appreciated.
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.
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.
AirVPN has been great so far. Moved to it from Mullvad.
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).
Yeah but one of the guys that owns it is the primary funder of that nutty far right political group.
Also take cash over mail
I recently switched to windscribe.
They’re a good, solid wireguard provider.
Godamnit, I didn’t realize PIA was bought out by them. Time to switch.
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.
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.
This is a special kind of irony: someone is lambasting one group for piracy while simultaneously advocating for another group to do essentially the same thing for their own benefit.
They’re not really prosecuting people for piracy, so why would they go after large corporations?
I’m not supporting the idea of pirating data for LLM training. I’m just saying: don’t be a hypocrite simply because a group of people you dislike is doing the same thing you’re doing, for the same reasons.
They’re all in bed together.
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?
He is getting paid. Not only has the Motion Picture Association contributed to political campaigns but it very recently gave awards and money to two politicians that promote their interests
For specifics on donations see: https://myreptracker.com/campaign-finance/committees/C00139519/motion-picture-association-inc-political-action-committee-mpaamerica-pac
In 2025, the MPA gave Chris Coons its Industry Champion Award and also honored Darrell Issa. MPA CEO Charles Rivkin described Coons as a “trusted partner” and praised Issa as a “true partner” on matters important to film and television.
It’s very basic corruption in broad daylight, and it’s pretty common in US politics today. As far as I know, you can’t prove corruption in court without some form of wiretapping or paper trail, which is trivial for them to avoid. So they’ll never get in trouble for being absolute utter dog shit human beings.
