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Every ISP in the US has been ordered to block three pirate streaming services
- onionisafruit 4y agoDoes this ruling have teeth? It seems like this particular judge thinks she can unilaterally order every ISP in America to act, but does she really have that authority?
- Vladimof 4y agoI have been using the same pirating method since mIRC on Windows 3.11... I feel ancient.
- loxias 4y agoTIL: DCC still exists! (I have fond memories of using mIRC, at my summer job at the local ISP, blatantly abusing our control of the bandwidth to download a gargantuan file, a copy of a movie that just came out called "The Matrix". Good times.)
- Vladimof 4y agoI used to have my 2400kbps modem connected all night just for a few songs ;) ... my 486 could barely decode mp3
- loxias 4y agohigh five :D And then the horror when your mother accidentally picks up the phone. You had to actually wait for the gratification. BTW, Soulseek still exists, and is still awesome. Kids these days.... I bet they don't even organize their media collections! You might be one of the few people here who properly appreciates the best perk of that aforementioned summer job was it came with a free ISDN line. More than half a lifetime ago and I (clearly) still want to brag about it. ;-)
- Vladimof 4y agoNo clue what Soulseek is though.. it appears to be a Mac app so that's probably why... I was never lucky enough to have ISDN... I jumped from 56k to ADSL (after years of waiting because the phone station was too far away from my home)
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- tru3_power 4y agoOh wow totally forgot about soulseek. Are the communities still active?
- ksaj 4y agoDon't forget all the porn that cuts off before the money shot because people downloaded and then shared without noticing or caring that their video was incomplete. Or so I heard.
- usrn 4y agoDid you mean 2.4kbps? 2400kbps should be able to download an MP3 song in a few minutes.
- Vladimof 4y agooops... I did
- metadat 4y agoThe sites appear rather lame: > Israel.tv, Israeli-tv.com, and Sdarot.tv Why the blocking injunction rather than going through the usual channels of filing takedown orders against the companies providing hosting for these sites? This sets a rather nasty precedent. From here on, ISPs can be ordered to block literally anything and the plumbing will already be in place. Between rolling back Roe v. Wade and now this, things seem to be getting out of hand with the authoritarian government in the USA. It's a shame we don't have the option to sail across the ocean and found a new country where we can abolish the authoritarian republic, deprivation of human rights, and high taxes without commensurate representation
- basicplus2 4y agoSometimes it seems to me that the US should be divided into two, and everyone move to the half that they agree with.
- metadat 4y agoI wish, there really are effectively two USAs at this point, and the southern portion is leeching the West Coast to death. We grow most of their food, and make most of their technology. What are they contributing besides hate and divisiveness?
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 4y agoThey’re buying a lot of useless widgets which helps support the lifestyles of a lot of vile people from all social classes, while pumping out incalculable greenhouse gases, spreading dogma, and there are a few a solar farms, cows, prairies, and natural resource extraction sites.
- daniel-cussen 4y agoWhich half gets to keep the name?
- PolygonSheep 4y agoI think we already had (past tense) the solution in federalism. If the federal government only did what the constitution says it does, most of the red state/blue state stuff wouldn't even be an issue at the federal level. Who won the presidential election or which party controls congress would be much less significant. The average person would have little reason to care much one way or the other. Sadly we broke that a long time ago and Humpty Dumpty isn't going back together again.
- hirundo 4y agoI'm in the process of shifting from a small regional ISP to a large international ISP ... for 10x the performance at a lower price. This is an argument for not doing that, since the larger organization would be more visible and vulnerable to blanket injunctions.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoPretty good point. The internet isn’t what it used to be…
- u2077 4y agoDRM enforced at an internet level. We look at Russia and think they’re bad, but the rest of the world is just around the corner. Mass surveillance and censorship are easy to achieve once you control access to the undersea cables.
- danamit 4y agoThis was invoked over pirating and not stuff like child porn? crazy.
- pgn674 4y agoIf this stands and is enforced, will this be the first time ever in the US that an ISP providing internet access to home subscribers is forced by the government to block something?
- hjkl0 4y agoWhy are Israeli companies coming to the US to sew an Israeli website that serves Israeli content?