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Anti Piracy VP Says "Any Device" That Can Be Used To Infringe IP Should Be Made Illegal
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this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2023
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Let's ban computers then. Oh you can share content from these various technologies ? Ban them ! Your CPU is able to process data of any kind ? Banned ! You made a code project that is able to process and share data ? Banned !
This whole trend of banning things that "can" be used to make any illegal activities is ridiculous. VPNs are widely used by pirates and criminals to share illegal content on the web but it is also a very powerful tool to escape censorship and obtain a certain of privacy on the web. Tor also falls into it, while ironically being made by the US army, is also a very good free tool for activists of all kind to express their claims and evade censorship as well. Torrent was made to transfer files of any kind as a peer to peer technology and is still very useful outside of sharing illegal content.
If we start banning every tools used by the common people for normal (and legal) practices because a small group of people use them for illegal purpose, everything will be restricted, banned or heavily regulated.
Ban cars, they can be used to commit crimes. Hell ban bikes as well. Gloves, sunglasses and hoodies next. Basically just ban everything until we're all just chained to a desk wearing a toga and grinding away for our overlords on PCs that can only run the one company app.
Let's ban open source softwares because we can't regulate them
Just gonna leave this here: The coming war on general computation
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