He'll do whatever makes his buddies the most money.
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2024
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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.
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?
$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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I doubt he knows what it is but at least one of his fascist collaborators probably do.
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
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.
Probably not too much so his big tech friends can scrape all data they need.
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.