Copyright Industry Wants To Apply Automated Blocking To The Internet’s Core Routers

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Think about how many times the copyright nazis have tried to crack down on piracy and then imagine how much good that kind of effort could do if they set up sting operations to catch pedos
- One makes them money and the other doesn't, unfortunately.
  
  They're engaged in one activity and not the other.
  
  To Catch a Predator made a lot of money. I don't know why they stopped it just because that one politician killed himself.
Tell me that the entity overseeing this infrastructure replied with "lol no"
- Which one? Internet is not held by one thing, it's a network.
  
  That can be shut down by bad actors, easier than simple folk might think.
Explain to me how that works if the traffic is end to end encrypted.
- you can't end to end encrypt the traffic destination or else no one will know where to route said traffic. this isn't tor.
  
  IDK why you're getting down voted, you're right.
  Besides how would such a filter even work? I mean dropping all packets to specific IP addresses will lead to chaos with any organization that uses NAT or GCNAT.
  Sure, you can circumvent getting your own IP address banned, by using a tunnel, but then your tunnel gateway is the one to get banned instead. End to end encryption won't solve the problem. Unless we actually setup a system like tor, and don't leave our own network. But that would be pretty easy to squash, wouldn't it? I mean a network only set up for piracy, it will get it's main operators taken down pretty fast.
  
  So they're not checking the contents for copyright violations, but the source and destination.
They did the same with The Pirate Bay. Didn't bother them at all. Stay strong, never give up, fellow sailers!
(if you want to learn more about it check out https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/92/)

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