Comment on ISP to Supreme Court: We shouldn’t have to disconnect users accused of piracy

• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, they don’t disconnect a criminals phone service because they committed a crime and made a phone call. It makes no damned sense.

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  • this_1_is_mine@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Only happens as a matter by court order and is a limit on the person not on the corporations. Though if found out after by the court it can be ordered terminated. And you will face further punishment.

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    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      government.They are responsible for their own tos

      Piracy almost certainly violates their TOS

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Actually, that’s been done several times over the decades. As well as banning computer access. The guy caught hacking into the fbi gets his mouse and keyboard taken away.

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• elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you do something illegal, you should be arrested.

  Copyright infringement lawsuits are a far cry from bomb threats or the like.

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  • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not everything that is illegal is punishable by arrest

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    • elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So you’re saying copyright infringement is on par with speeding or parking past the meter’s end? Eh, fair enough.

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      • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Honestly it is less severe than speeding. Copyright was an invention of the pre-digital era. Now that we all use computers, so many things we do every day are technically copyright infringement that it is absurd to even have these kinds of conversations.

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      • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I was just pointing out a logical fallacy. It’s literally impossible to do the thing you said.

        This is just facts, they aren’t an opinion

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, I’ve been ticketed for speeding, and that certainly doesn’t come with the threat of arrest.

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• oconnordaniel@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe not a court order. But I could get behind a process similar to other utilities where you have months or warning and paperwork.

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