Concerns over South Africa's piracy crackdown

[wingnut771]

I do. Quite often actually.

qBittorrent FTW.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

his fukked-up government cannot police rape, murder, public violence and corruption...but they focus on TV licenses and internet piracy.

Stupid, useless kunts.

 

[Slegdehammer67]

These people cannot even look after the day-to-day running of the RSA what the hell do they even think they know about technology and how to apply whatever it is they think they can AND what the effects of that'll be?!

I mean wtf?!

 

[grok]

30%ers gonna 30% while the rest of the world leaves Africa in their dust.

Luckily the begging bowl is always in hand..

 

[pinball wizard]

What I don't understand is why the government even gives a shet about this lmao.

Because with their forcing netflix to carry 30% local content, as well as their planned forcing of sabc license fees on streaming service users, they know we'll simply leave the online services and go back to piracy. If they can close off that avenue, we have to go back to legal streaming services and they get their cut.

It's always. always about self enrichment when it comes to the ANC.

 

[grok]

There are a few free options:

• Cloudflare WARP+ (1.1.1.1)
• Ookla Speedtest.net VPN
• Google One - VPN included (not free, but part of subscription)

If you have a cloud VM, pretty simple to install OpenVPN or Wireguard or use SOCKS5 (ssh -D)

I've used:
SOCK5 https://ma.ttias.be/socks-proxy-linux-ssh-bypass-content-filters/
PIA https://www.privateinternetaccess.com
WARP+
All work well

Be a sport and do a write-up on the Cloud one for us, I know I can probably google but learning from true experience has its benefits.

 

[Swa]

This is people's first misunderstanding of China's firewall. The government knows they can't fully control the internet, that's not the point. The point is that average person KNOWS the government is monitoring their communications, and that anyone more technically savvy - using a VPN or other circumvention techniques - is generally distinguishable from the rest of the traffic. That's enough to mark you as a person of interest, even if they don't know what you're transmitting. The rest are subdued by a chilling effect.

Secondly, the Great Firewall is extremely effective at what it's intended to do. Have a read through this technical explanation, or this article about the how it is changing views of their populace. The Great Firewall has also helped bootstrap local alternatives to international services such as Twitter and Youtube, something our government would no doubt welcome as a means of enforcing new channels for investment and employment while retaining legislative control over.

South Africa signed a co-operative agreement with China in 2015 on internet governance, with an aim of improving our ICT infrastructure through the sharing of technology and techniques. We are beginning to see the fruits of that agreement, couched in convenient trojan horse talking points like "piracy". Weird how many of the most contentious cyber-related bills began to see serious engagement around the same time. Probably just a coincidence.

The point is to control the dissemination of information, something China has been able to do quite effectively. Doubt our government would be able to do the same.

 

[AstroTurf]

All the Government sees:

“In addition, they’d likely need additional staff

 

[GlassMirror]

ProtonVPN and QBittorrent. Showing Unnamed road somewhere in the Netherlands. Bring on your stupid piracy censorship bill

 

[The Free Radical]

Laws are made to keep honest people law abiding ..... period.