Isn’t it fucking crazy that “industry demands ____” is likely to come to fruition, but “group of individuals demands XYZ” isn’t likely to change shit?

I demand better living conditions. We all demand an economy that doesn’t favor the rich. Not shit will change.

Companies “demand” shit and then just literally write the laws and hand them to legislators who pass them.

From the article...

He also told the audience that pirate-site operators "aren't teenagers playing an elaborate prank. The perpetrators are real-life mobsters, organized crime syndicates—many of whom engage in child pornography, prostitution, drug trafficking, and other societal ills.

I'm honestly surprised they didn't throw the word 'terrorist' into that description as well.

Service Provider

Not Service Regulator

They shouldn’t have any knowledge of what websites people visit

Basically demands lawmakers for ISPs implement censorship tools.

And when people demand living wages, or properly priced housing, or affordable food, that shit doesn't matter right?

Fuck the movie industry.

They were doing just fine until people started to hate theatres and so their main source of ripping people off faded away.

Block piracy websites with what? Dns resolver?

Piracy websites should add a copy of the U.S. Constitution to their websites. Just slap a "/constitution.html" on the site.

Then, if the MPA succeeds, we can talk about how the U.S. Government is blocking access to hundreds/thousands of copies of the Constitution online.

Wage theft and fraud poses a larger threat to the economy. Rather than hiring 20 million dollars of internet policing to save zero dollars of the economy could we get 20 million dollars of police that prosecute fraudsters and shitty employers?

Cool. Now all of Google Drive is blocked because one guy hosted a movie there for a few days.

Hmmm, yes. Build a whole generation of tech savvy people with knowledge of VPNs and that activelly hate your guts. I cannot foresee any way this could backfire.

an industry which throws away finished movies because they don't want to spend the money to release it?

yeah nah, you're disqualified from an opinion on piracy.

Okay, I’ll use my own DNS provider

Imagine how much money the movie industry would have if it stopped wasting time and effort on the false idea that 1 download = 1 lost sale.

I mean, good luck with that. Pirate bay is never going down at this point.

Instead of being contempt with one yacht, they're gonna do what they can to have zero.

When A24 and state run film studios like Vicscreen are the only ones making anything remotely worth the box office, you have a problem, and burning down the barn to stop the foxes from all those delicious hens aren't gonna fix it. Just more socialized losses.

"They are deying us our Corporate Right to Profit!!!"

Fuck 'em. Pirate more.

I demand laws requiring the movie industries to throw any IPs they don't want to use or any movies they don't give reasonable and simple access straight into the public domain

Hahahahaha

Unintended consequences - what are they going to do once 90% of connections are encrypted, include use of VPNs and encrypted DNS?

This is what they're promoting.

Host your own encrypted DNS on a VPS in a non-compliant location, use a VPN to connect to it.

So many ways these idiots are cutting their own throats.

Also, let's list the companies rather than say "Movie Industry". Or let that be a link to a Wiki article listing all the companies and their holdings.

Fuck em all at this point. I go to maybe 2 movies a year, at most. And I'm cutting subscription services, down to 2 at this point.