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TorrentFreak - New Bill Aims to Block Foreign Pirate Sites in the U.S. (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by SnotFlickerman to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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If approved, FADPA would allow copyright holders to obtain court orders requiring large Internet service providers (ISPs) and DNS resolvers to block access to pirate sites. The bill would amend existing copyright law to focus specifically on ‘foreign websites’ that are ‘primarily designed’ for copyright infringement.

The inclusion of DNS resolvers is significant. Major tech companies such as Google and Cloudflare offer DNS services internationally, raising the possibility of blocking orders having an effect worldwide. DNS providers with less than $100 million in annual revenue are excluded.

While site blocking is claimed to exist in more than 60 countries, DNS resolvers are typically not included in site blocking laws and regulations. These services have been targeted with blocking requests before but it’s certainly not standard.

It's aimed at DNS resolvers, so folks better start busting out them Pi-Holes and setting up unbound.

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[-] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 2 months ago

Because peeps who frequent pirate sites will never be able to figure out DNS stuff!
More virtual theater bc the real ones suck.

[-] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 27 points 2 months ago

Oh nooooo here I go recording the IP addresses of the sites I visit in case I need to add DNS records to my router oh nooooo

[-] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 2 months ago

They blocked Pirate sites here in Australia years ago, and as far as I’m aware it affected nobody. Everyone who knows how to torrent already knows how to get by it.

[-] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

For us experienced pirates it's a minor inconvenience, but for a newbie it means that the barrier to entry has been considerabily raised. Try to explain how to torrent (safely) to a 14yo without IT skills, or even to a 40 yo. Its basically a lost cause.

[-] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago

If you are sailing the seven seas, you should be using a vpn of any kind by default, so this won't do shit to you anyway.

Italy thinks their crappy piracy shield works and it does jack to anyone using even the cheapest vpn.

[-] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Well, for torrenting it doesnt do much, but for IPTV users it sure does..

[-] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 13 points 2 months ago

Next DNS works too, just be sure you store your logs in a secure place like switzerland or just don't make any logs at all. You can also use protonVPN, Mullvad or iVPN to access any site like that through a proxy outside of the US

Do some research on which countries allow pirating movies and TV shows and try to stick to those

If your internet provider gives you the third degree about using a VPN just say that you don't want advertising companies to be able to see what you're doing as easily, or you can claim that when you play games online, you don't want any of those people to see where you really are. "I need to protect myself from anyone who gets salty with me after they lose"

You can also claim that you were using the VPN to see what's available in other countries on youtube, netflix and so on.

Not that I would ever pirate anything, that would be bad...or something.

[-] SnotFlickerman 10 points 2 months ago

If DNS gets blocked, can't sites still be accessed as long as you know the IP or Socket of the server?

[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 months ago

Sometimes that works, it depends on how the server is set up. For DNS blocking, you just switch to a different DNS server or run your own DNS resolver.