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It's nice that they give people a public list of interesting websites in case they want to infringe on some copyrights.

• ChuckNorris89 4y ago
  Don't think it works like that. The people who didn't know about these site before probably didn't practice piracy at all anyway, so having this list of blocked websites won't help them now anyway as they can't access them easily now anyway. So IMHO these blocks mainly work at stopping Average Joes from accessing low-friction, low hanging fruit piracy and annoying them enough that they'd rather give Netflix 12 Euros than learn how to bypass these annoying restrictions.
  • dewey 4y ago
    You are probably right, it’s just funny that there’s a public list saying „don’t go there“ which kinda acts like a „forbidden books“ list making it more interesting.
    • ChuckNorris89 4y ago
      For broke kids with more free time than money, yeah learning to access forbidden pirate sites is cool and interesting, but since Austria is a relatively high income country, most people I know here don't bother with piracy at all and just pay for content anyway. So blocks like these will definitely discourage more Average Joes from low hanging fruit piracy and keep them as law-abiding paying customers rather than turning them into "hackers".
      • dewey 4y ago
        It was a joke, don't take it so seriously... But as an Austrian myself, piracy was alive and well when I was in the age group where that usually happens and many "regular" people used free streaming sites when kino.to and others were still popular.
      • manmal 4y ago
        Weird, I‘m from AT as well and I know people from every income bracket who pirate content. Except for elderly people, currently.
      • 7steps2much 4y ago
        Austrian checking in, the problem with the "high income" logic is that most stuff offered over here is just pretty crappy. The libraries of streaming services are tiny compared to international offerings and some don't even offer anything in Austria at all because it's a small market. Pirating is still alive and well, not necessarily because people can't/don't want to afford the alternatives, but because they just aren't as convenient.
  • cf141q5325 4y ago
    It does actually work really great. With old sites going down from time to time and DMCA requests making it difficult to find new piracy sites via search engines, having a list is very convenient.
    • ChuckNorris89 4y ago
      How does that work, when the websites on those lists don't work in your country?
      • dewey 4y ago
        VPN
        • ChuckNorris89 4y ago
          People who need to use that list of blocked websites usually have no idea of VPNs. And vide versa. People used to VPNs already know the pirate sites and don't need that list.
          • cf141q5325 4y ago
            Thats the misconception i was talking about. Unless you are traveling the high seas regularly, you will sooner or later get into the situation, that you come back and all your links are dead.
          • dewey 4y ago
            I think you are underestimating the popularity of VPNs these days, just watching a YouTube video for "regular" people will have NordVPN, ExpressVPN ads on them advertising them as good for "privacy" or watching Netflix while you are on vacation. It's not a technology only accessible to nerds for a long time.