There is something fundamentally fucked up in a country that arrests and puts in jail a 13 years old kid over a bad joke.

Going against the parents is impopular and would make the parents vote against you in the next elections.

Age verification is a great success I see. I feel so much safer now with this shit in place so kids can’t watch porn…

What if the VPS’ start offering no-logs policies so it’s impossible to know anything about the traffic and encryption so they don’t even know whose that traffic?

This is gonna be an arms race and I don’t doubt of the stupidity of the politicians. The brexit showed us how dumb they can be.

Sure, but how do you confirm that I’m using it as a vpn and not as a real server to run my own apps (for example a cloud storage or a media server)?

Oh right, you just ban VPS as a whole too, because why not, right?

And next thing, since we are at it, we should ban encrypted traffic because who knows what are you doing with your encrypted communications! Fuck HTTPS! Think of the children!!!

And the worst thing is that I can completely see them doing it.

Absolutely not, of course. I’m just hoping they try to enforce this so a shitstorm of proportions only seen in the brexit will ensue.

One thing we must acknowledge to these idiots is how much effort they put on showing the world the consequences of extremely stupid acts so the rest don’t have to do it.

I work from office and i regularly use a vpn at work to connect remotely to devices that are not physically with me. Not to talk about companies that provide remote assistance and use them to connect to their customers devices.

Remote work is just a byproduct of vpns, but not the real reason why you use them at work.

How many small businesses can afford such permit? Hell, I’d argue that even bigger companies will have a problem paying for that.

Also, what if I just connect to a vps overseas and set my exit point there? Will they ban vps too? This is gonna be so much fun to see from the outside

Will the next step be banning VPS then? Because that’s what will happen: if you ban VPNs (good luck with that lol), people will just connect to a VPS in a less stupid country and exit from there.

I hope they start looking at TOR too, that should be really fun.

While I understand what you are saying, let’s not forget that the people who helped the turd get into power were not just those actively voting for him but also those who didn’t vote because “both sides!!”. That’s not “a minority of the country” but actually the majority of it.

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Yeah, I will definitely trust an internet stranger with my face so they can verify that I’m not underage to access content which could, in case of being leaked, damage my reputation or even destroy my life.

DEFINITELY

Would they really? I mean, the way I see it, they are pushing for the all digital market more and more. It’s really in their best interest to kill a market that gives no money to them.

Besides, they don’t need to outright kill it, just spread the fear of bans if you buy used. Enough to indirectly kill the market by making people believe buying used is dangerous.

There’s a darker solution, which is what nintendo would love more: kill the second hand market.

And these moves might very well do it. If news spread and people start getting scared of buying a used game, second hand sales will drop and eventually die. Something that can only benefit nintendo.

I wonder if a banned console could download a game from a game key card, because if it can’t, then there’s not much of a difference between a ban and a brick.

I just had an interesting exchange with a nintendrone about this topic. Apparently, nintendo did the right thing because the guy who bought the game shouldn’t go buying from shady people and, even if it was a store, then, the store is at fault (and not Nintendo), because the store should test the games they buy to guarantee that they won’t cause a ban.

But in no way was Nintendo at fault for treating their customers as guilty until proven innocent.

I’m testing this this evening. My only gripe with soulseek is that if I want to download a playlist from spotify, I need to manually search for each song.

Soulseek is your friend. Setting up your library will be a tough step, but once done, you’ll feel so free that it will be worth it.

As a general rule, if a corpo is against something the EU does, it means your government should do it too because it’s a good thing.

Go figure. Probably they are going to monitor traffic somehow to see if you visit certain websites and if you stay on them for too long, they flag you as a pirate. I’m not concerned, I browse the internet through a vpn.