Just stupid. Do we not have the freedom to visit whatever websites we want? You could visit these sites and not pirate stuff, while unlikely there could be non-infringing material on these sites. They could just buy a new domain. We could just use VPNs. Why do we blame Communism for China’s locked down internet when Capitalism clearly wants the same thing?

Imo piracy (and theft in general) isn’t the problem, it’s a symptom of the much larger problems of low wages, price gouging, affordability issues, overcomplication of services and just the general scumminess of most of the companies producing film and TV shows. But of course nobody is going after those issues, are they?

Also, the URLs of the sites banned are included in the article in a nice, well formatted table. And in completely unrelated discussion, if anybody is looking for a good VPN, I’ve heard good things about windscribe

Millions in tax payer money wasted with the simple changing of your DNS.