“Imagine losing internet access because someone in your household downloaded pirated music.”

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    accused of repeat copyright infringements

    Does this court determine whether this concrete accusation against a person holds as well, or does this court determine whether an accusation is enough?

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      Hold your forearm out so I can compare it to this color palette. We’ll go from there. /s

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    I’m gonna go to businesses I don’t like, hop on the Wi-Fi, and pirate from all the most obvious trackers.

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      Great sentiment but we all know a business will get a pass for this just like when Meta got busted torrenting all those books and were told its okay because they’re using it to train their AI.

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        Is that the conclusion? I thought that’s still under investigation. I remember reading about it months after the first reports.

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      This seems like the best strategy realistically. If scotus makes it everyones problem, then make it a problem for those with the most to lose from losing internet access.

      Starbucks in particular would have a bad time lol

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        They wouldn’t though, large businesses see no consequences from laws that you and I would see consequences for.

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        Nah, then it just becomes a defacto situation of the content creation companies (Disney, Sony, etc) owning the telecom companies. So you will truly be a single content household, like a Disney Household or a Paramount Household.

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          … And Sean Kennedy’s listener licence becomes just a little closer to reality.

          (I know that no one knows who that is, but Tales From the Afternoon was ironically prophetic and well ahead of it’s time. Unfortunately I’m one of a very few people who knows who he is lol)

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    Remember when a certain company just paid a large fine for pirating information to train AI?

    So step 1 should be to remove Internet access to Meta, if you aren’t going to do that, then it is 100% corrupt.

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    Sony so mad at Cox for not cutting off someone’s Internet for downloading they’ll take it to the SCOTUS, but they won’t even use the frankly abusive laws they already have access to to just sue the end user? What is even going on?

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      Sony wanted mo money. Yo money wasn’t enough for them. So they got a jury to agree that Cox owes them 1 Billion dollars.

      Let’s all sing about how much we love Corporate Governance.

      Please don’t shut off my internet telecom daddy I’ll drink another Mountain Dew Verification Can!

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      Sony is really anti consumer. I went to buy one of their PC games the other day, but it is not available in the country I am presently in right now along with a few other developing counties when I looked into it. So if you want the title, your only option is Torrent it and such which I am sure is common here.

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        Sony is really anti consumer.

        Throwback to when Sony intentionally packaged literal rootkits on their music CDs, so anyone who used the CD to play music had the rootkit automatically installed. And then when they were forced to make a rootkit remover, they simply installed more malware to hide any file names that matched the rootkit’s name. Which introduced an easy way for hackers to hide their own malware, by simply naming it the same as the rootkit.

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          Right. I forgot about that. What a despicable company. It is almost like to be successful, you have to play dirty but I am not so sure it is Sony’s fault per se as if they don’t their competitors will, which will always ensure the dirty players win. It is a systemic failure of society that we have allowed unchecked Capitalism which ironically will eventually suck the oxygen out of the room to even its own detriment.

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      Because those laws aren’t doing enough to scare people into obeying. This is the next step in trying to terrorize people into submission.

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    I hope the SCOTUS justices aren’t using 3-strikes-you’re-out ISPs! All it would take is three random DMCA takedown notices and they’d lose Internet.