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The article itself is terrifying. But also, what’s happened to Torrent Freak? I think of them as having a pro-freedom anti-restrictions stance, and they pretty
by ddulaney 2y ago
The article itself is terrifying.
But also, what’s happened to Torrent Freak? I think of them as having a pro-freedom anti-restrictions stance, and they pretty uncritically reported a deeply alarming conference. Has there been a shift in leadership or priorities? Or has this been happening for a while and I missed it?
- mindslight 2y agoI first noticed this on a different torrentfreak article the other day, but this one is off the charts. It's basically just fawning over this industry narrative that something must be done to put the personal computing genie back in the bottle. We've already got the draconian anti-due-process takedown regimes (DMCA and its outgrowths), but these people continue to want ever more automatic enforcement for their government-granted revenue streams. A perfectly fine alternative is of course to not keep piling more totalitarian solutions on, and just accept that the content cartels just have to actually compete with the superior piracy UX. Frankly the (proto-)trend makes me wonder if TF got bought out by the content cartels to serve as astroturf.