they actually do think that if you stop piracy people will flock back to streaming services when in reality all that will happen is i'll just watch more twitch.

low key hope this happens.

it's gonna be fuckin funny to watch all IT in the US grind to a halt because everyone who WFH can't work because their internet was cut off.

then a week into mandatory office returns someone will get the whole datacenter cut off because they're running torrents from their laptop.

dumb fucks are going after the worst people to fuck with.

• fieldworkers
• women
• gamers
• IT support

don't fuck with IT. they know what filthy shit you watch from home.

More like, if you steal something you are banned from using roads and sidewalks and doors.

Due process seems to just be a recommendation.

What will they do when entire College campuses lose internet access because half their students are pirating text books

I’m not a United Statesian so I have no clue anymore how it works there, but other places have been making the case that the Internet is an essential service and that access to it is a basic right. So to leapfrog off your question, is that like a poor person stealing a loaf of bread being cut off from food because they didn’t food responsibly enough?

i'd just go to a local fast food resturant and bring my portable piracy machine

Not even piracy. Accusations thereof.

This still won’t make me pay for Netflix

So all tech companies?

Recommendation???

No.

It's a luxury you can try but only if you can afford it.

It’s like trading cards, gotta trade em all!

You wouldn't be able to access twitch. You'd have to buy cable TV or an antenna for the free channels. Either way media wins via commercials.

Protip for anyone unfamiliar: Mullvad really is the gold standard for a private VPN. If you just want to pirate shit and not get angry letters from your ISP, Nord or PIA will accomplish that. But if you REALLY want privacy, Mullvad is it.

USCIS can deport a non-citizen for accusations of drug use, including weed.

Let that sink in.

Then the AI companies that have openly used pirated stuff could also get disconnected lol. Of course business will be fine and individuals will get shafted who expects anything different nowadays.

Inb4 palantir cuts off your electric and water because you had 15% eye distraction during the mandatory 3hr nightly fox news viewing.

Then they'll lobby against public WiFi. I was in China recently and (depending on the province) you need a phone number to access public WiFi so that they know who you are.

This is actually why I usually install a VPS in whichever country I’m physically in—my end devices always appear to be connecting to something innocent in-country (like a corporate VPN). That VPS then does the double-hop out of the country so that the VPS also seems pretty innocent too.

I don’t think it’s actually more secure though since the VPS is in my name and it’s technically decrypting everything. But I’m a bit less paranoid about that. (I’m not doing tons of illegal shit anyway.)

Unfortunately the country I was born in, the USA, is also one that voted against the international resolution to define food as a human right.