So, do any pirates here have a grasp in what this asshole feels towards piracy in general? Should we be worried? I’m worried he’ll install an FCC that’ll work against internet rights, that’s one concern.
I’d like to hear what thoughts you have.
Even if it’s not directly related to piracy, he will try to censor the internet in ways that will harm your possibilities of consuming pirated content.
Get a vpn. From a country that doesn’t make part of the 14 eyes, with real no-logs policy and, if possible, that accepts cash, crypto or prepaid cards. Ditch windows too.
PSA: all women in Trumpistan should be especially very mindful of state-level surveillance of their internet use, whether or not they pirate stuff. But this is also good advice for all pirates.
His deputy (Barr) said that criminal use of VPNs should be looked into but nothing became of that.
This happened like more than 4 years ago so I could be wrong. Someone correct me if I am
EDIT: He wanted all encryption to have backdoors
He’ll do whatever makes his buddies the most money.
the last 16 years had 4 years of republican rule. the democrats are very responsible for the fact that the feds are going after pirates (crime against rich stakeholders) instead of crimes against the members of the general American demographic as a principle.
the change from public servants to corporate military is a bipartisan problem, folks
I for one welcome the new piracy arms race, every time someone tries to stop piracy, piracy gets easier and more efficient.
Especially if they try to ban porn as outlined in Project 2025
Good luck trying to essentially end one of the biggest industries that’s partly in contributing on keeping the country going.
We might have to ban the government with nukes
He is not going to appoint someone to the FCC. He is going to get rid of it. ISPs are going to be free to do whatever they want with no federal interference.
He’s not going to “get rid of it”, he’s going to corrupt it. Give spectrum to the biggest donors, reverse net neutrality, get rid of antitrust, revoke broadcast licenses of anyone who criticizes him.
reverse net neutrality
Hate to break it to you, that was already ruined in the Obama administration
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That also means people can do whatever they want with spectrum. Gonna fuck with Starlink and all kinds of other communications. Afterall, with no FCC, y’all can do whatever you want.
This won’t happen, what will happen is that he revokes the broadcast license of anyone who criticizes the administration and removes all consumer protections against privacy and surveillance. he will repeal section 230 for everyone except X and Truth social.
Which might be a blessing in disguise? I mean, for the ISPs that have been actively fighting corporate interests from telling them what to do. With no governmental branch telling them what to do and not wanting to lose many subscribers lest they risk going out of business, then isn’t that a net positive?
With no government oversight, and the nation already cut up into segments by the ISPs so that they have monopolies in their areas, you think the free market is suddenly going to start working like Ancaps say it will and regulate itself in a way that’s good for consumers?
If you’re the kind of person to believe something like that, then I have a new cryptocurrency you should buy from me. Guaranteed to go to the moon, no rug pull. Trust me, bro.
This would be a double edged sword. Without regulation, the ISP will work in whichever way grants them the most money.
This means that they probably won’t go after copyright claims unless the rightsholders pay them first, but they will ramp up data collection efforts to sell to brokerage firms and will also engage in rate-limiting on high-bandwith use cases like streaming or torrenting unless you pay extra.
$1/mb is now the only plan in your area.
ISPs generally have few to zero competition, so I expect this will generally be awful in face of deregulation.
My local ISP is run by Trumpers out of one little office nearby
I’d love a final reason to firebomb them after all the bullshit, honestly
Like 1$ for every mb/s or for every mb downloaded?
The intended chair is a huge fan of data caps to increase profits, so I’ll give you one guess.
Facebook is now $5.00 a month charge
Steam access is $20.00 charge
Countries without net Neutrality are like this. If I believe correctly Belgium is like this.
There will be a branch of government telling them what to do. It will just be the courts, as they’re sued into oblivion by IP rights holders.
But that’s like what’s already been happening. It’ll just be business as usual.
He won’t just get rid of it, he will wield it as a weapon against anyone who criticizes his administration
I don’t think he’s been vocal one way or another about piracy, but i wouldn’t be surprised if he appointed a fresh group of jackoffs with something to prove
Everything will be fine unless someone shows him an active torrent of The Apprentice and explains he doesn’t get paid residuals if people watch it that way.
is he paid residuals for theater and streaming sales? 🤮 if so, this would be a great reason to pirate it.
Well he’s going to make it nigh-impossible to afford electronic equipment or compute power.
Piracy may be fine, but the tools that facilitate it will be broken.
Get what you can now, and embrace the return to sneakernets.
I doubt he knows what it is but at least one of his fascist collaborators probably do.
Probably not too much so his big tech friends can scrape all data they need.
Intriguing nonetheless, I would say it will be the usual pushback and blowback.
oh yeah, it’s all gone, he’s for the oligarch media owners, expect pirate sites to be nuked across the board, expect internet access to be 10x more expensive, expect vpn’s to be curtailed if not outlawed outright. it’s the end of all things. this is no hyperbole.
Eh, not necessarily. Hollywood hates piracy and Trump hates Hollywood, it might actually be as simple as that.
Worry is the worst use of imagination. The latter can take you all sorts of places, whereas the former is more of a rocking chair: misleadingly distracting but essentially stationary. 🙇🏽♂️
