Want to know what I used to pirate, but don’t anymore? Video games. Steam makes tons of money off of me and everybody else and has reasonable DRM with an easy to use store.
Piracy is a delivery problem. Make content easier to get for reasonable prices and you’ll make money. Don’t do that? OK. Piracy it is.
+1 for steam
I used to pirate my games on linux, but it’s harder than on Windows. Steam’s gaming on linux experience is perfect, just download the game and hit Play.
I used to pirate movies I owned just because of the annoying FBI warnings and ads at the start of dvds.
You could just rip them instead.
Torrent was even faster
My story but with anime. Japan has some really annoying laws requiring their shows to be blurred and dimmed during fast-paced scenes and it absolutely butchers the height of good animations.
The Blu-ray releases don’t have this issue, but guess what releases aren’t available for purchase/streaming for English audiences. 🫠 I want to give them money so bad, but 🤷♀️
wow lets poison DNS, surely no one will start linking these piracy sites via ip addresses or create alternative domain names. wcgw.
It isn’t like I’m not willing to pay. My NAS setup wasn’t exactly cheap. But the user experience is just incredible. I had Netflix for ten years, and several others for some time. The experience is just better. Watching whatever I want synchronized with my wife across devices of any type is superb. Who else offers that?
Netflix did, but now online streaming is fragmented and it’s worse again.
I can download a torrent faster than I can even figure out which service the content is on… assuming it’s even available on one of them.
This is a dumb game of whackamole that they’ll never win.
If you’re affected just switch your dns to Quad9 or something.
Let’s Play Wack-A-Mole! Select Game:
- Sue Hosters -> Found New Hosts
- Sue Domains -> Found New Domains
- Sue DNS -> Found New DNS
- ???
- Sue the entire Internet -> Get laughed at
Or run your own DNS with Unbound. Just takes a raspberry pi and/or other cheap low power PC.
Yep. Only reason I recommend not to is if you’re concerned about your ISP seeing your DNS queries. I use internally hosted DNS with forwarders to Quad9 using secure DNS so that my DNS queries are segregated and hidden from my ISP.
This is such a stupid non solution to their problem.
Quad9 is a great thing to learn about right about now.
Funks your brother check it out now.
And OpenDNS.
Try afraid.org instead of a cisco product.
They’re great too. I used to use their free DNS hosting, but now I just use my registrar’s since I don’t need dyndns anymore.
They’re fantastic and I honestly forgot about them. Thanks for the reminder!
OpenDNS was bought over by Cisco quite some years ago.
Dang, that sucks.
I’ve been on Quad9 and Cloudflare for a while now, and I was thinking of going back to OpenDNS as my backup, but I guess I’ll use afraid.org or one of the others instead.
And NextDNS too!!
I feel like anyone who already had a know-how to change their DNS will just change to one of the other hundreds of free servers and the people who couldn’t be bothered to switch to google DNS will already have been “blocked”. Or they are using a VPN already…
Or run your own recursive DNS which can be done in a docker container. Most people I know sailing the seven seas are quite adept at technology. Well most people I know are in IT in the first place so that likely doesn’t mean much.
Is there such a thing as federated dns servers, self hosted or otherwise? I don’t particularly care about piracy but I can see this dominoing into abortion, lgtq+ ect…ect…
As long as you’re not using DNSSEC, you can easily run your own. I’ve been running a PiHole for years now, it can pull in block lists and such from various sources, it’d be fairly easy to add a list to pull in automatically that include extra records. Those could be served from anywhere. Torrents, git repos, http calls, etc.
Note that with just pihole you would still be affected by this, since pihole needs an upstream dns server to get it’s data from.
But if you set up pihole with unbound you will be OK, since unbound then will do the job of getting data from the root servers without another upstream dns.
I my experience it is also faster.
I believe you can use DNSSEC directly with root servers.
Would pihole work if all the major DNS that gets pulled resolved the same? I would imagine the change would only work for a while.
While others suggested adding the DNS records manually the far more secure and easier in the long term solution is to run pihole with unbound. Going this route completely eliminates third party upstream DNS servers as unbound will query the top level domain for their authoritative name server and direct the IP address from the source. Pihole has a great explanation on their website. I like crosstalk solutions on setting it up as it’s has everything you need just to copy paste your way into it working.
unbound is a validating, recursive, caching, self-hosted DNS resolver.
There exists GNUNet, but not really sure how common it is used.
I keep hearing about people being aware of it’s existence, but I have yet to see a single person say they use it.
I don’t think this question really makes sense.
DNS is centralized in that there is a root zone that determines who is the canonical authority for each top level domain like
.comor.world(and the registrar for each top level domain controls who controls each domain under them). But it’s also decentralized in the sense that everyone who controls a domain can assign any subdomains below that, and that anyone can choose to override the name resolving with their own local DNS server (or even a hosts file saved on the device).The court case here is trying to override the official domain ownership records at specific DNS providers. The problem is that the intermediaries are being ordered by the courts not to follow the central authority.
Federation wouldn’t fit this model: we still want DNS to be canonical where everyone in the world agrees which domain resolves to which IP addresses.
Yes, it’s called
unboundDNS is to a degree, by design federated to begin with. What you need to participate is a recursive DNS server, like Unbound as some of your other replies have mentioned. You can run it on the same machine as something like Pihole if you’re already running that.
How about just firewall France and discover if legislators find cause to pass new laws.
Win win! No more France, new legislation!
How is that even legal?
It is legal just only because they can restrict the access to any of the services they want, in fact they don’t oblige you to use their DNS…
How would it be illegal? It’s their service, they can set whatever rules they want on it. If you don’t like it, pick another DNS provider.
Around 800 Frenchies affected. Imagine the money both companies wasted on lawyers on this and how many of those 800 will be forced to pay now instead of finding another dns server…
Talk about an impotent response. Pretty simple way around that.
Even the most casual of internet users will see the guide on how to change their DNS server bruh.
Next they’ll do DNS injection even though DoT and DNS over HTTPS is a thing.
seems to be only in france rn?
