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ISP to Supreme Court: We shouldn’t have to disconnect users accused of piracy (arstechnica.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It feels dirty to agree with an ISP on something. But even the worst corporations are on the right side of something from time to time I suppose.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago

Think it's because they know the people pirating are the people paying for unlimited?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fuck the dmca!

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Abolish copyright

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Reform copyright

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Abolish reform

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Reform abolishment

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Refresh abdomen

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I had Verizon threatened to shut down my internet. I had been receiving notices for close to a decade via email, I assumed they were all toothless. And that was true in the past

I just called the Verizon copyright office and told them that it wasn't me and I would change my Wi-Fi password 😂

It was suspiciously easy as if they really don't care and are just trying to be compliant

I got a VPN and no longer have to deal with it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I feel like most people don't even check their ISP email anymore. Why use that instead of the Gmail you've had for 18 years.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’m glad I live in Australia where this doesn’t happen thanks to previous attempts by IP copyright holders (mainly US based ones) to have similar policies forced upon ISP’s here and being told by judges here that the penalties and expectations and demands made by these said IP copyright holding companies was over the top and excessive and thrown out of court…..

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

I think the precedent set here was that downloading a copy of a movie carried the penalty of the monetary cost of obtaining the movie lehally, so its just not worth pursuing. I might be wrong about that.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Small ISPs have zero interest in enforcing piracy. They don't want to lose the customers on their highest tiers. Comcast though, they suck

[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago (2 children)

enforcing piracy

NOTICE

YOU HAVE NOT MET YOUR MONTHLY PIRACY QUOTA

YOU WILL BE TERMINATED,

THANKS.

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