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nonethewiser
So there are only 295 domains censored? Seems like a lot of them of streaming sights breaking copyright/license agreements. Has to be a small fraction of those such sites alone.
sccxy
So it is a collection of the best pirate sites?
accountofthaha
Collection goes into my blocklist for at home.

Pirating is theft. Pirating is inhumane.

lousken
What if the content is not available in your country? You can't steal what you can't buy.
account42
Correct, pirating is bad. Copyright infringement on the other hand is kewl.
Semaphor
For those wondering: it's DNS blocks, so only affecting those using ISP DNS.
lifestyleguru
Germans are mostly chill but if you start torrenting copyrighed content or even watching illegal streaming they will eat your face and drink your warm blood.
jug
Honestly makes it look like legislation with "sponsorship" from the film industry. I had expected much shadier stuff or those overrun with malware to protect users, not like 90% illicit streaming.
leonwip
But it is not legally required, and at least my smaller German ISP doesn’t seem to care.
nik282000
Anna's Archive and Sci-Hub. So despite their facade the German government is just as draconian as the US.
jstummbillig
And now I am really interested in what Anna might have in that archive of her's
on_the_train
I know a few more, for example demonoid. This list is just a sunset. Inb4 "actually it's not Germany censoring. It's the ISPs"
kn100
What a handy list the Germans have prepared
wltr
I have never visited these kino domains, but I assume that’s just some piracy entity. Yet it’s quite impressive how many various domain names they bought! What for? Is it to avoid those blocks? Or is there any more reasons?
zoklet-enjoyer
This reminds me of a screenshot I saw where someone told chatgpt they stumbled upon a piracy website and wanted a list of other websites to avoid hahaha
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lukan
Ah yes, we need to forcefully protect our citiziens from all the evils of the internet: rapists, pedophiles, terrorists ... oh wait, this is just about copyright stuff.

Seriously, thanks for updating that list and the nice instructions to circumvent. (3 clicks with firefox, without the need to install anything or type in anything by hand)

diego_moita
Being German, is not surprising so many are sites with football games (i.e. the game Americans call "soccer").
lacoolj
Interesting they went through the trouble of blocking specific subdomains rather than just blanketing the entire domains for all the "www*." at the end of the list

And yet, the entire beginning of the list, no subdomains listed - so are subdomains for them allowed (unless specifically blocked here)?

andsoitis
buffstreams.sx wasn’t what I hoped for.
kuon
Nice, a list of torrent sites!
maoxiaoke
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