So just browse piracy sites with Tor. Bittorrent clients might struggle to access blocked trackers, but the DHT can’t really be censored IIUC.
EDIT: It might even be possible to configure Bittorrent clients to use Tor specifically for communication with trackers (but not for the bulk P2P chunk transfers).
host your own recursive DNS like technitium or unbound then you remain in control they can’t deny root DNS
DNS only handles the initial domain-to-IP translation.
What the article is (mostly) talking about is the second step - blocking access to the destination IP/site entirely.
But surely the whole point of using the VPN is to use one that’s outside of U.S authority?
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!!
That’s the whole point of VPN providers. They’re not in your jurisdiction.
I think i2p may see a big uptick in usage then.
The Corrupt Empire of America at it again.
I think they are copying what France and Germany are trying to do and make it worse.
US on the way to become a less free country than China lol
China inspects each packet for vpn patterns. US still have lots of work to do.
obsf4, meek, SnowFlake, and WebTunnel all say hello.
Don’t worry, we built up lots of processing power in data centers. We’ll get there soon.
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.
Land of the free, huh?
That has only ever applied to wealthy land owners.
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
You’ll get there, don’t worry. We’re working on that ourselves too. I’m at least half way there.
Yay, I am glad for you:)
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.
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?
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.
…as opposed to the non-democratic worlds, which are already as fascist as you can get, right?
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.
Only nutjobs like us gonna go double vpn+ tor. Not a single normie would ever go though this.
Look at China. One can penetrate the great firewall but need to jump through so many hoops just to get a shitty internet connection to the rest of the world. Normies there just won’t do it.
I think China isn’t just “it’s hard”, but also the risk of caught is very high.
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.
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 buy 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.
Great, more boomers who can’t understand how the internet works.
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.
Each half of that sentence is diametrically opposed to the other.
The thing that would make us better isn’t knowing; it’s doing. It makes sense to say that someone who knows better but behaves no better is literally no better.
Rationality is sensitivity and responsiveness to reasons, and plenty of folks are unresponsive to normative facts.
At least 70% of humans are just dangerously intelligent animals. Like imagine a polar bear that can drive and trade stocks. That’s the average person.
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.
It’s a series of tubes.
I mean, kind of, but also absolutely not
Ironically, that guy was probably the closest any politician at the time got to understanding what the internet was.
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.
