If approved, FADPA would allow copyright holders to obtain court orders requiring large Internet service providers (ISPs) and DNS resolvers to block access to pirate sites. The bill would amend existing copyright law to focus specifically on ‘foreign websites’ that are ‘primarily designed’ for copyright infringement.

The inclusion of DNS resolvers is significant. Major tech companies such as Google and Cloudflare offer DNS services internationally, raising the possibility of blocking orders having an effect worldwide. DNS providers with less than $100 million in annual revenue are excluded.

While site blocking is claimed to exist in more than 60 countries, DNS resolvers are typically not included in site blocking laws and regulations. These services have been targeted with blocking requests before but it’s certainly not standard.

It's aimed at DNS resolvers, so folks better start busting out them Pi-Holes and setting up unbound.

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[–] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 10 points 23 hours ago

Next DNS works too, just be sure you store your logs in a secure place like switzerland or just don't make any logs at all. You can also use protonVPN, Mullvad or iVPN to access any site like that through a proxy outside of the US

Do some research on which countries allow pirating movies and TV shows and try to stick to those

If your internet provider gives you the third degree about using a VPN just say that you don't want advertising companies to be able to see what you're doing as easily, or you can claim that when you play games online, you don't want any of those people to see where you really are. "I need to protect myself from anyone who gets salty with me after they lose"

You can also claim that you were using the VPN to see what's available in other countries on youtube, netflix and so on.

Not that I would ever pirate anything, that would be bad...or something.