Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites

PirateJesus@lemmy.today to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com – 199 points –
Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites
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A site-blocking law would let copyright owners "request, in court, that Internet service providers block access to websites dedicated to sharing illegal, stolen content," he said. Rivkin claimed that in the US, piracy "steals hundreds of thousands of jobs from workers and tens of billions of dollars from our economy rich people's yacht money, including more than one billion in theatrical ticket sales."

Ah yes. Theatre-going. The favorite pastime of Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z since the invention of streaming.

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Fairly sure some of us would go if we could afford that billion dollar in theatre tickets.