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Federal bill would force VPN providers, ISPs, and DNS services to block foreign piracy sites
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this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2026
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Like this will ever work. lol. Just don’t get VPN from a company that is headquartered in the US. Problem solved. There are a million other ways to bypass this. There will ALWAYS be away, they’re just trying to make it harder for the experienced, and impossible for your average Joe.
This is the same party that are all for unregulated AI use and no consequences for breaking copyright to train it.
This bill's goal is to provide a standardized mechanism to filter sites then start blocking sites that state doesn't approve.
It's same as the other "think of the children" bills of the party that is protecting pedophiles.
They could also force ISPs to ban VPN IPs that don't comply with their piracy blocking rules, regardless of whether they're in the US.
The only way to stop it is buy severing all the cables and blowing up the infrastructure. They aren't prepared to do that.
Literally. This is not a new “fight”. These corrupt, bribes-ridden fuckers have been “fighting” piracy since the inception of the internet, and they’ve always lost, and always lose.