I wish I could read good news, like

Sharers woke up, Republicans have been composted, Blackbeard installs MetroNets at every home.

Yeah good luck with that.

Maybe the bill will get an amendment. Maybe a 2nd amendment is required.

and meanwhile my qbt is hotdoging it (seeding linux ISOs)

Welcome back SOPA.

Issa argued that online piracy helps fund terrorist groups and other criminal networks.

Gotta play the "Everything I don't like is 'terrrorism'. " card, naturally.
I wonder if it hurts when you have the collective hand of media conglomerates shoved up your ass like a sock puppet.

Oh no, not DNS, however will I get to my desired sites?? DNS isn't the only way. It's just the most obvious or easiest, but we'll let them keep thinking that 😆

Piracy is speech.

Fucking Darryl Issa again?

This motherfucker has been trying to censor and cripple the internet for like 25 years

Fuck off dude, you’re the terrorist

So the expensive infrastructure for DPI that that takes, who's going to pay for that? And just where are you going to buy it? China?

Honestly, they're likely already doing it for surveillance of their citizens anyway.

Surveillance is cheap, filtering/blocking with DPI is not, and has plenty of false positives, see Russia.

A 2nd amendment, by a 2nd player, let's name it "Luigi" or smth.

Couldn’t people circumvent that by not hosting piracy sites in that country and by using a VPN based outside the imperial core?

https://beige.party/@intransitivelie/117057396732763183

I regret to inform everyone that my copy of QBittorrent escaped its sandbox last night and downloaded a whole bunch of content owned by major corporations, and then my copy of Jellyfin broke containment and added those unfortunately-downloaded media files to its various libraries. I'm conducting an internal investigation to figure out how this happened, which will involve consuming these media files until the answers become apparent. Thank you for your cooperation during this trying time.

Not like you could go to domain registrar. Or to the host company.

“Foreign websites pirating American movies, TV shows, art, and books steal tens of billions of dollars from the US economy each year,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) said at the time.

How do i steal money you not have? Please tell me, i need to steal 10 billion from myself.

DNS is like a post office or delivery company. They all have databases of who lives where so they can match a home address to a name.

DNS isn't required per se, you can "deliver" traffic directly or through another delivery service... If "https://website.com/" has a domain address of 111.222.33.44, you could also just type that into your browser URL bar like https://111.222.33.44/ and DNS isn't (or at least shouldn't be) touched.

I know. You can add host and ip to os host file and bypass dns.

But instead of go to person actually responsible for dns entry, domain registrar, they go to dns resolver? And also not go to server host or reverse proxy (cloudflare) which actual cause distribute?

create a billion copies of TV show

company looses X billion dollars

buy company for pennies on the dollar

delete billion copie
company gains X billion dollars

I am now a billionaire

Something something terrorism and protect the childrens!

Piracy sites are like gremlins lol

Nah https needs a domain name

Huh, you're right! Guess I haven't done that in a long while lol. I tested to Google.com IP address and the http request redirects to https so it did work technically, but I'm guessing not many sites will handle that correctly or all the time.

bittorrent: lol

also who the fuck is using a vpn operating in the us?

also it has 0 cosponsors, is stuck in committee, mike johnson sent everyone home so they couldn't vote on hegseth's impeachment, and issa is retiring at the end of the year... so it's pretty moot.

He should have a chat with Meta, OpenAI, and other megacorps that trained all their models on pirated content.

JD Vance was all in until he realized it wasn't SOFA.

No it doesn't

Thanks for correcting me. I researched it, its a quite new feature from letsencrypt (dont know if this was possible from other services)
https://letsencrypt.org/2026/01/15/6day-and-ip-general-availability

This political cartoon is from years ago, isn't it? Somehow it's evergreen.