Senators want to mandate anti-piracy technology across the web

Websites could face mandatory anti-piracy technology upgrades every three years.

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Yeeeah, this isn’t possible… It’s amazing how many senators are so incredibly stupid…

Such things are already hosted in places these laws can’t reach anyway, plus it’s not like its hard to circumvent those anyway, even the “$100 million Youtube ContentID system” is easy to trick by just adjusting audio or speed slightly, lol.

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So may of our politicians here are just as bad :upside_down_face:

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Basically everywhere. Becoming a politician is a popularity contest, not a competency test, much as that should be swapped… ^.^;

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