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[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Just do what we do in Canada. Send them threatening letters. It scares 90% of parents into telling their kids to knock that shit off, but they're toothless and can't actually do anything, and the remaining 10% still pirate away. Everyone's happy.

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What about legitimate torrented content? Are they going to outlaw the technology outright? Don't plenty of legitimate downloads use torrents to speed up software updates and such?

[–] Atomicbunnies@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago

Yes. I share like 100+ Linux distros via torrents.

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[–] zer0bitz@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

See you guys in I2P :)

[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

ha. all of my traffic is encrypted and routed through at least 3 pirate friendly countries and servers that don't keep logs. good fucking luck inspecting those packets.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Pro@programming.dev 11 points 1 week ago
[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

thank god i go to ireland to do all my torrenting.

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[–] einlander@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We are going to end up with a super private and encrypted Internet because of it.

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[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Like 20 years ago the RAVE Act said venues can be charged if anyone is in possession of illegal drugs inside of them during an event. Similar in some ways

[–] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Guess it's time to go underground, sigh.

[–] dulce_3t_decorum_3st@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You should already be underground

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