The American Copyright Protection Act aims to force ISPs, DNS resolvers, and VPNs to cut off access to foreign piracy sites

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    7 days ago

    Step 1: rent a $5 VPS anywhere outside of us government control.

    Step 2: set up a multi-hop tunnel through said VPS using glutun and wireguard.

    You are now immune to this bullshit.

    Lmao

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        avg comes with one. pita, sometimes it turns it on when i don’t want to use it. I used to mess around with it because I got avg because my phone kept getting hacked and I was like this thing comes with a vpn!!! whaaaaaaat but tbh I have no use for t so I don’t even use it.

        ngl though, if i went out of the country and needed to access paypal instead of using zelle, id use it, other than that, it’s annoying when i do a virus scan and it gets turned on after.

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        6 days ago

        They can be found for less than $20 a month. They’re on par with 1-2 streaming services you can drop.

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      I know, a VPS is nothing and running wireguard in a docker container takes 3 minutes.

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      You can build a psuedo VPN with as little as ssh + squid on a VPS. Tunnel your web traffic over ssh to a proxy on the VPS.

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    6 days ago

    Dear Government. Quit trying to turn the Internet into 1980s cable TV. There’s a lot of us out here using it for its original purpose instead shopping and watching Netflix.

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    So employees that use a company VPN to access company files between offices are now breaking the law?

    What about personal vpns that people setup to access their home devices, like a smart home setup or home security camera? Illegal as well?

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      No, specific IPs of AI companies are clear for doing this.

      Incoming IP spoofs of OpenAI in 3, 2, 1…

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        Ya… I’m hosting an AI company from my $10k seed… It uhhhh focuses a lot on porn and tv.

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    Remember when piracy was shrinking and Netflix was cheap and had a good deal of content?

    Ah well, if only we can figure out what changed.

    I guess we’ll instead try prohibiting VPNs, when something is in demand… prohibiting it always works great with zero unintended consequences.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    8 days ago

    Nothing like passing legislation to force a collection of international communications protocols to ban sites the state doesn’t like….

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    8 days ago

    God forbid some asshole isnt allowed to make a buck, lets hand over all our rights and privacy for the bottom line.

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    8 days ago

    They can’t stop me. Who wants to join my private sharing network? Let’s VPN it up.

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    8 days ago

    I guess it’s inevitable that the USA must copy China’s approach to managing the internet… the existential crises are reaching a breaking point

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    8 days ago

    These “small government conservatives” have been spineless for so long, it’s hard to remember anyone ever made the claim!