Rose said the MPA’s requested law would be similar to the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that was shelved after major protests over a decade ago.
SOPA/PIPA. Now there are some acronyms i haven’t heard in a long time.
dusts off hat
Whelp back in the saddle folks. Let’s stop this bullshit.
Piracy isn’t as big now. And people seem dumber so don’t expect the same protests.
Further, most organization was done on reddit. Reddit itself has a lot less investment in the issue than they did previously. Doubtful they would help support a sitewide protest about it, either.
Or…hear me out…stop streaming service enshittification.
But think of all the potential short term profits!
Think of the shareholders!
I demand:
- Studios have exclusive rights to their respective works for 2 years, after which time they are required to license it to their competitors for “at cost” fees, similar to pole easements for cable/electric companies.
- Public Domain is reverted to 25 years after publishing
- Fan Fiction is added as a “free use” exception
If we had better politicians, these threats from the MPAA would amount to just whining.
Make it so i can easily, affordably, reliably watch your content and it will not need to be pirated. No? Yoho.
I suppose that once you have laws that allow blocking one type of site then other sites will be pretty easy to be added. A precedent sort of thing. Done once then others will follow.
Pretty amazing that piracy is such a hot topic such that freedoms can be curtailed but everyone’s right to an AR15 must be protected.
Well AR15 sales are good for business, and piracy is not… Great world!
Is it the early 2000s again? Fuck the executives and rich folks who push for this stuff - eat them.
Fuck the MPAA
Who the fuck even goes to a website to pirate anything these days? Go ahead and ban the entire www it will do nothing to stop piracy and only further ruin the internet.
The internet routes around your blockade! long live the Pirates! Liber8! Pirate bay FTW!!
These sorts of laws always make me chuckle as it really underscores how little the government knows about tech.
Do they really think they can limit free speech like that? How will this law stand up to legal challenges?
Not sure if this is sarcasm but can you explain how this relates to free speech?
Not trying to be funny at all with this comment.
Blocking websites blocks speech. Speech is generally defined pretty broadly in the American court system and this seems pretty clear cut. If you can’t censor music or stop people from wearing certain clothes then I think blocking websites looks a lot like censorship of speech that should be free.
IANAL, but I think (and hope) there would be legal challenges to a law like this.
Interesting, thanks for the explanation
I demand the movie industry delivers Scarlett Johansson to my room striped and covered in melted butter, but it looks like none of us are going home happy today.
How is this even possible? Seriously, how can this be done at all?
It’s not. The Movie Execs have no idea how people pirate their shit. The ISPs could block, but VPNs and I2P exist.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The MPA will “work with members of Congress” to require Internet service providers to block piracy websites, he said during a “state of the industry” address at CinemaCon 2024 in Las Vegas, a convention for movie theater owners.
“So today, here with you at CinemaCon, I’m announcing the next major phase of this effort: the MPA is going to work with members of Congress to enact judicial site-blocking legislation here in the United States.”
A site-blocking law would let copyright owners “request, in court, that Internet service providers block access to websites dedicated to sharing illegal, stolen content,” he said.
Consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge urged Congress to reject the MPA push, saying that a site-blocking law would threaten the open Internet.
The MPA’s latest push for a site-blocking law comes about two weeks before a Federal Communications Commission vote to restore net neutrality rules that prohibit ISPs from blocking and throttling websites.
Rose said the MPA’s requested law would be similar to the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that was shelved after major protests over a decade ago.
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Pfft 🏴☠️
