Originally published at: https://troypoint.com/us-lawmakers-push-site-blocking-measures/
A new push from US Lawmakers is aimed at site blocking for popular streaming sites including websites that provide Movies and TV Shows. This comes after the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet held a hearing regarding online piracy. Numerous big hitters were involved including representatives from the MPA (Motion Picture…
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As usual, these brilliant US lawmakers are out of touch and wasting tax dollars on something that will never amount to anything. How about telling your MPA friends (donors) to get in touch with reality and shift to a business model like Spotify which cut down on music piracy dramatically? If the price is right and the platform is convenient, people will pay for the media that they consume.
That right there says it all.Unless and until these greedy media conglomerates get their hearts in the right places,then piracy will always be rampant.
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viva la napster
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the greedy media companies have been trying to stop thier subpar product from being hacked like “forever” hasn’t done them much good ? and i think it never will? altho pols try to restrict it? these
super smart hackers out here are having none of it…lol
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I just love how these billionaires complain about loosing a million. They want the government to fix their problems. LOL.