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Copyright Industry Continues Its Efforts To Ban VPNs (www.techdirt.com)
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[–] 12 points 7 months ago (6 children)

can't ban VPNs entirely, people will find a way to circomvent. and what people living in "geo-restricted" areas should even do?? yeah lets make it HARDER for them to access content legitimately surely they will stop piracy. if a service restricts content for me, I WILL pirate it.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    No, you cannot ban VPN tech. The cat's out of the bag. You and I would still gain access. But an attempted ban could have quite the chilling effect on the average person, driving the tech underground and enabling bad actors.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Banning VPNs means the spread out locations in my companies network don't get to talk to one another. Plus I can run a tunnel through a ssh session and the only way they could tell it was a VPN would be by the amount of traffic. Its pointless and the only reason they keep trying is that the recording pukes don't understand how anything works other than their narrow greed driven focus.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    If they really wanted to go down that hole, They could force companies to register keys with the ISP so they could snoop.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    It would add steps and make it more expensive, but how would you prevent registered companies from selling access to anyone who wanted to use that connection? You can't really. Like the user above said, they're ignorant to think they could force control. Users will find ways to circumvent these measures and will always be a step ahead.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    As long as the encryption keys being used are registered with the ISPs they could decode it.

    You would make the law so that if an ISP did not decode traffic for DPI, it would be liable for it. They'd drop any non DPI able packets so fast it'd make your head spin.

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