Trying to force ISP's to police their user's internet traffic, as a means to stop piracy, is phenomenally stupid. All they've managed to do is make the internet worse for the average user while forcing a dramatic increase in the sophistication of piracy technology.

Hell, I would argue that the state and quality of pirated media is in some ways the best it's ever been and the recording and film industries have indirectly contributed to that. Talk about irony.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Internet shutoff orders (including for nonpayment) should require a court approval IMO.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Agreed. I don't understand why internet access gets treated as some sort of luxury when it is impossible to function as part of society without it.

[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Probably because if we admit that it’s a necessity of the modern age like power and water, it would basically need to be metered like a utility, and there goes all the profits with flat rate “up to” speed pricing that most people don’t even remotely use.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 months ago

I know if I was an ISP, I'd be like, Oh shit, we lost those logs again.

Fast forward 24 hours

Awww shit, it happened again

And so on....

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They know what they are doing. They are just trying to make enough hurdles to ensure normies don't switch.

Piracy is deff on the rise but I doubt it will go mainstream and that's what's need to properly punish these rent seekers

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sure might be on the rise but still down from its peak.

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

streaming services were good, most of us just paid for it during that time many people lost the skills and wills to do the job.

gonna take a while for people to get properly pissed to retrain.

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 4 points 4 months ago

Thats what I think is funny about the whole thing. They'd effectively won against piracy then were like "cool everyone is paying now LETS FUCKIN DRAIN THE SLUTS"

[–] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

Exactly how I ended up on debrid, I don’t know what the hell I’m doing anymore, I don’t mind paying but I got fed up with everything getting fractured and torn apart due to greedy ass licensing, I wouldn’t have even minded the price increases if it was one, maybe two, services but it’s absolutely ridiculous. I remember paying for up faith and family for a month to binge a show I wanted to watch and really started questioning how dumb I’d become. I got my moneys worth (imo) since I canceled after a month but I don’t have any desire to play the subscribe and cancel game either and it’s become pervasive if you just want to watch something. I knew it would get bad but I’d hoped for better, like Netflix and another competitor fighting for distribution supremacy kind of like Steam. That went to compete shit and I was naive af.

[–] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago

I agree. But I would go further and say if other industries didnt have more complex schemes and locked down IP (eg car manufacturing), people would def build their own shit with current tools. Its always the greed of those not willing to invest in innovation that keeps progress away. Media piracy and FOSS culture are the only real challengers to greed imo.