Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites ( arstechnica.com )

Mikufan , 1 month ago

Sounds ridiculous and just switching the fucking DNS works as a workaround...

ezchili , 1 month ago

It ""worked"" in France

It still kills most of the userbase when they do it

Normal people don't know what a fucking dns is

You end up with 10 more new sites and a drop in quality and an endless game of cat & mouse

Mikufan , 1 month ago

My home website has a permanent banner about DNS and displays a toast notification when you use a ISP DNS

Zagorath , 1 month ago

It really depends on how much people want to get around it. I grew up in Vietnam, where when I was in about year 10 of high school, the government decided to start blocking Facebook. Their block was only DNS, so word quickly spread around the school that you could still access Facebook if you changed your DNS. This was before quad 9 or even Google's quad 8 (the latter came around shortly after, which was a big improvement to how easy this became), so the DNS we ended up using was a difficult specific number to remember and communicate, but even despite that, by the end of the month pretty much everyone in school—from students to teachers—had learnt how to change their DNS to bypass the block.

People always say that piracy is more popular when it's easier than the legal means. And obviously adding a DNS block to pirating is going to increase its difficulty, and increase the relative convenience of legal means. But if the legal means continues getting worse and worse, at some point piracy is going to look more appealing again, and people will figure out how to bypass the DNS block.