It’s like getting mad at the highway department because drug smugglers use their roads.
Record labels sue Verizon for not disconnecting pirates’ Internet service
Submitted 4 months ago by fluxc0@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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funkajunk@lemm.ee 4 months ago
dog_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is way too funny. I love it.
crazyminner@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
They’re probably just trying their luck with the current state of the American judicial system.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 4 months ago
I mean, they just have to appeal until they get to the Supreme Court, then give the judges an RV and they’ll rule that all service providers must police their customers or some other far-reaching shit like that.
downpunxx@fedia.io 4 months ago
This is the nuclear option, it's not being sued, it's being in a remote location with only one local ISP that provides service to your area, getting caught torrenting, and then having the ISP terminate your service. You are fucked.
Entropywins@lemmy.world 4 months ago
About 15 years ago this happened to me they canceled my internet and I was super bummed. For some reason like 2 days later with the modem still hooked up but no internet I tried using my VPN and bam I was back online I still don’t understand how but through the vpn I still had internet for like 6 months
Steve@startrek.website 4 months ago
Starlink
Arbiter@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That doesn’t really solve the issue though.
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 4 months ago
So they’re going to provide a list of the pirate’s identities along with complete records of what filenames were downloaded, what percentage was completed, and proof that the labels actually own the contents of what was in those files (regardless of the actual filenames)… right? No? Yeah I didn’t think so. How are the courts still entertaining these broad lawsuits that never seem to prove any wrongdoing? Oh this person torrented some perfectly legal files so you want the ISP to cut them off because “they might have downloaded a movie we didn’t notice”?
myliltoehurts@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I just hope that 1 IP they’re so bent over turns out to be a CGNAT IP.
hahattpro@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yo that is why we need net neutrality
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 4 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Major record labels sued Verizon on Friday, alleging that the Internet service provider violated copyright law by continuing to serve customers accused of pirating music.
They say that “Verizon has knowingly contributed to, and reaped substantial profits from, massive copyright infringement committed by tens of thousands of its subscribers.”
Cox received support from groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which warned that the big money judgment could cause broadband providers to disconnect people from the Internet based only on accusations of copyright infringement.
While judges in the Cox case reversed a vicarious liability verdict, they affirmed the jury’s additional finding of willful contributory infringement and ordered a new damages trial.
“Yet rather than taking any steps to address its customers’ illegal use of its network, Verizon deliberately chose to ignore Plaintiffs’ notices, willfully blinding itself to that information and prioritizing its own profits over its legal obligations.”
The lawsuit also complains that Verizon hasn’t made it easier for copyright owners to file complaints about Internet users:
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pelletbucket@lemm.ee 4 months ago
should have started with the landlords
doctortofu@reddthat.com 4 months ago
Next step: sue the power companies for providing electricity to the bad, nasty pirates, their landlords for allowing the egregious acts of piracy on their property, and their mothers for not raising them right… /facepalm
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 4 months ago
and after that, sue the the grocery store industry for feeding those criminal scum.
WereCat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
May as well sue themselves for not suing them sooner
Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Suing the Amazon next for providing the criminals with oxygen.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Nuke the entire earth for spawning the species that would eventually become pirates.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Then they’ll sue themselves for not making their music more available for people to buy.
downpunxx@fedia.io 4 months ago
no, they got the blueprint now, just nuke the pirates ISP service, in most cases them, and their families/roomates have lost all ability to connect to the internet
Don_Dickle@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
As a pirate since Limewire I see news like this all the time. I just think its funny