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Music publishing companies notched another court victory against a broadband provider that refused to terminate the accounts of Internet users accused of piracy. In a ruling on Wednesday, the conservative-leaning US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit sided with the big three record labels against Grande Communications, a subsidiary of Astound Broadband.

The appeals court ordered a new trial on damages because it said the $46.8 million award was too high, but affirmed the lower court's finding that Grande is liable for contributory copyright infringement.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The fifth circuit can die in a fire. It'd be a great preview of hell, too.

[–] [email protected] 202 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Service termination based on accusation alone? What a great legal invention. Im sure it won't ever be abused

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I thought everyone is innocent until proven guilty?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I only read the headline, but I don't wanna die because some bands make it impossible to buy their music on shitty, poorly designed websites.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Good fuckin luck with that. You're just gonna have people adopting more obfuscated piracy methods.

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[–] [email protected] 231 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I suppose this means that if someone tells USPS that a burned DVD of The Bee Movie has been mailed to me, USPS should stop delivering any mail to me?

[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That is one way to stop junk mail...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago

Sign me up!

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

That is the end of democracy

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 days ago

This is some bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 233 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Exactly what law states internet connections should be terminated for users accused of piracy?

And are we going to selectively enforce this against poor people, or are they going to start demanding the trunk lines feeding AI datacenters be cut as well? (I asked rhetorically).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

I second this. Anyone know the code reference?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (14 children)

Might be a good idea to torrent whatever you need before the corpos manage to get some law passed that makes it so that isps will have to terminate users for that.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 days ago

Come on, you don't think an industry that habitually uses automated takedown requests regardless of merit would falsely accuse anyone, do you?

[–] [email protected] 67 points 5 days ago

AI shouldn’t be allowed to touch the internet because it’s basically stealing everything and never giving references which is plagiarism.

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