Spectrum will hijack your DNS if they catch you filtering and make you talk to their “security team” it’s a bit of a joke but they do it.
But you know, use a vpn or proxy to avoid this bullshit and enjoy your internet.
Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene
Submitted 11 months ago by moe90@feddit.nl to technology@lemmy.world
https://animecorner.me/sony-music-supreme-court-cut-off-internet-piracy/
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RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
riodoro1@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You stole a bottle of sprite from the store?
No running water for you.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Um, has there ever been a time Sony, the rootkit DRM company has not called for state intervention to enforce IP laws regarding Sony holdings? (All the while Sony pirates anyone else’s stuff.)
This is like the news that Comcast objects to municipal areas opening up Comcast monopoly regions to new ISPs. Sony is almost as bas as Nintendo when it comes to their franchises.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Get a vpn provider. Set the location as the Netherlands. Set up a docker container with deluge and openvpn, and set it up to use your vpn provider.
Voila. You only need run your torrent traffic through the vpn, and it’ll be on its own kill switch.
kandoh@reddthat.com 11 months ago
That’s like cutting wizards off from their source of magic
EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The level of short sightedness in this pursuit is laughable, even if it’s coming from corporate.
You pirated a song?
Well then, we’re going to cut off your internet so that we can never effectively market anything we make to you ever again.
We’ll gladly lose out on all the revenue you normally spend on corporate movies, tech, and content because we’d rather hyper fixate on the pennies of lost revenue that mp3 cost us, than ever worry about the macro economic conditions of the real people it comes from.
Fucking LOL.
Etterra@discuss.online 11 months ago
It’s cyclical. The current generation of executive assholes failed to learn the lesson of their predecessors.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
It’s the same idea as “death penalty will scare people out from committing murder”
The hope is the threat will stop new people from getting into that
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Death penalty is an ineffective deterrent mostly because people tend to commit the crimes it’s used as a punishment for while not thinking, or caring, about the consequences at all.
Now, forget cutting off the internet, if you’d get the death penalty for getting caught pirating music, it would prove to be a very effective deterrent at stopping it. I guarantee, zero piracy after a few years.
A lot smaller population left to buy the legal media too, though, but hey, no pesky pirates!MangoCats@feddit.it 11 months ago
My Google account that I had for 15+ years got banned from YouTube when I let my 9 year old play around making edited videos. He’d mash up clips from PBS Kids and other places. Apparently PBS didn’t like this and after a couple of vague warnings, my account is banned from YouTube for life, no actual chance of appeal. Of course I could just ditch it and open a new account under another name, but I’m stubborn, over seven years have passed and they’re still silent on the issue. I can watch YouTube, but not comment or post videos. Oh well.
fishos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For me it’s having a kind of Streisand Effect… Is there a mass torrent of just Sony songs I can grab? Cus fuck em, I want it just out of spite
Almacca@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Forget marketing. They want every game to require logging in to their servers. You won’t even be able to buy or play their games.
normalexit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Spectrum had a policy like this at one point. They’d shut you off after a couple of instances of p2p that were reported. Afterwards, they directed you into a captive portal with some plausible deniability where you had to say “I don’t know what happened, but it won’t happen again”.
Nowadays they just send you an email but don’t restrict access.
Either way the Internet isn’t too safe, protect yourself with at least a VPN.
vane@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Cut us all off, so corporate can use internet, what they meant to use it for. Corporate Porn.
terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
They plan on suing all the ai companies too?
vane@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They won’t sue their inteleligence providers
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They could but let’s be honest, the AI companies have no capital to take. They’re just one big ponzi scheme waiting to collapse as soon as new investors stop coming in faster than they leave.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 11 months ago
Haha the US is so fucking dumb bro I can’t
arararagi@ani.social 11 months ago
That’s dystopian, good luck finding a job besides servicing without internet.
Teknikal@eviltoast.org 11 months ago
I’ve never forgiven Sony for decades deleting an account with paid for expensive games on it, they claimed inactivity for 6 months and UK law meant they had to.
No other account (with purchases) I have has ever just got deleted on me and you better believe Sony are never getting a single penny from me again.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Microsoft stole my copy of minecraft when they bought it
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Same
altphoto@lemmy.today 11 months ago
You can just download a house now:
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Fuck you Sony…
Signed a lifelong pirate.
deathbird@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Like shouldn’t they just be suing the customers directly for a bazillion dollars at this point?
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It costs a holiday and a nice dinner to make the SCOTUS say “um, ackchually, the constitution doesn’t say anything about access to the internet”.
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
As an aside that’s one of the major things I’ve never understood about how SCOTUS developes rulings, ie: how they use ‘original intent’ to figure out current issues.
primemagnus@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Reason #56,789 of why Sony is on my permanent embargo list since 2002. They treat their customers like absolute shit. And they pay their bills.
If Sony is involved you know it’s straight sleaze. If there was an award for most evil company, they’d be leading.
Sony’s part of the fine was raised by a third for trying to obstruct the investigation by refusing to answer inquiries made by the EU officials and shredding of evidence during the multiple law-enforcement raids.
From their part in the videotape price fixing snafu back some 20 years. That’s how they roll.
sep@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sony would be in the running. But i think nestle would beat them on the top spot.
primemagnus@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
They’d both be graping each others mothers for the prize I’m sure…
Funnily enough, my old employer hired an HR rep… formerly from Nestle. Just, wow. Like the worst kind of human I’ve ever met. Man can these shitty companies spot “talent.”
I’m convinced to work for either, you need to film yourself eating the liver from a blind baby.
BranBucket@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Cut off internet for people who pirate… Those people are now unable to stream anything… Sacrifice thousands in potential revenue over an infringement that maybe cost them a few dollars, if that… Deter no one because everyone thinks they won’t get caught.
Good move. Smart guys.
Litebit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We need a new internet, a new way to connect.
hyprn@lemmy.net.au 11 months ago
Some guy has already done it:
ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Same goes for other projects using the same frequencies. WiFi HaLow, LoRa/Meshtastic/LoRaWAN, Z Wave, Zigbee, Sigfox. All great tech.
Litebit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nice, that is a pretty cool use of radio signal.
FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
surely this is only for torrents right? there should be no way they can detect DDL.
farngis_mcgiles@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
honeypots
The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I won’t use a phone company that listens to my calls and criticizes me for who I speak with. I won’t use an internet provider that monitors what I download or shares that info with third parties. The only other way to catch someone downloading, is if an agent of the copyright holder is uploading the torrent file.
If you hire private security to give me free beer outside of your store, you can’t accuse me of shoplifting because I accepted the free beer.
deathbird@mander.xyz 11 months ago
So you’re saying you have a choice in ISPs? Sounds pretty cool.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
My area has around 3 or 4 competing ISPs.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
I think they can also catch you seeding it.
The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Assuming no VPN is being used, to get your IP while you are seeding, they would need to be connected and downloading. When downloading a torrent you are also sharing the parts you have already downloaded with other torrent users. The agent of the copyright holder has to give the copyrighted material away for free in order to see the IP address of the seeders. By giving it away for free while in the employ of the copyright holder, they are authorizing the sharing of the material.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
do these dumbasses think people pirate without vpns?
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We once got a letter from our isp because someone who was at our dnd game night was using our internet to download shit without telling us so that was fun.
He stopped when we showed him the letter (he was the only guy with a laptop so it had to be him at the time)
sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
In that guys defence, it’s pretty common to just have your torrent client on in the background doing its thing. He was likely unaware either until seeing the notice.
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I do. I’m an idiot and already got emails from my ISP.
muusemuuse@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I do and I never get emails from my ISP.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sony: still trying to make the Betamax monetization plan work…
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Emigrating to internet friendly country is something I’d do in a week. I guess sharing someone else’s internet, or account identity is an option.
Treble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Knocking neighbors offline so there’s more hands for making molotov… good plan 😼
yournamehere@lemm.ee 11 months ago
ah all good…nothing is lost. everytime ppl hate murican corpos more, the world becomes a better place.
apple making it hard to install warez, google forcing playstore,gsf and manifest3 on ppl
everything american is always shit. period. because entire culture is built on being a shit person. dont blame tump or sony or microsoft…it is the american people that just suck all the time.
FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
as an American this is an absolute truth nuke.
LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
everytime ppl hate murican corpos more
FYI, SONY is a Japanese multinational corporation.
jonathan@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
You’re not wrong but culturally and historically, Sony Music is American.
quetzaldilla@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Do not conflate the people with the corporations.
And let’s not ignore the fact that many nations were happy to buy and profit until the USA government turned into a bargain sale for billionaires.
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I’m also an American, and this is 100% accurate. My countrymen are assholes, and the only thing they’ve ever cared about are problems that directly affect them.
SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Huh, I’m American and I’m surrounded by people who are incredibly kind and nurturing and will bend over backwards to help others. Sounds like you live in a shit part of the country if you only have assholes near you.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Turns out the ‘shining beacon on a hill’ and the ‘thousand points of light’ they used to talk about were all crosses burning.
callouscomic@lemm.ee 11 months ago
As an American, I approve this message. It’s accurate.
j0ester@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Shut up, Sony. Stop pirating Adobe Apps then.
dulce_3t_decorum_3st@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I may or may not have been pirating media for over 20 years and this song and dance will never end.
Sure, the well known torrent sites have marginally less content and seeds than before but my Plex server may or may not still be packed full of classics and the latest releases.
The above may or may not be purely fictional and victimless. And no, I wouldn’t “steal a handbag.” Handbags aren’t infinite digital replicas, and handbag owners don’t drive supercars.
(I draw the line at software largely due to the risks, and partly due to Mac apps and Adobe suite being locked down pretty well. I’m happy to pay for software regardless.)
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Shit, I didn’t just pirate all the movies and TV shows I consume, but I also stole the server that hosts my Servarr stack that I download them onto from my last corporate job.
Yo ho ho, mateys, and a bottle of VPNs!
jpablo68@infosec.pub 11 months ago
I pay for Netflix and get other shows that interest me elsewhere, they are few and come out every two years or so.
RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Well streaming shouldn’t have fucking won
Jhex@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We were trying to be reasonable and compromise… I know, how naive of us
Now that the streaming industry plunged head first into enshitification, we are back to our previously held practices
RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
I Personally refused, I bought every CD I could even digitally. Hell I’ll still buy some but it’s getting annoying and I don’t want to support certain platforms anymore. So now it’s like I’d rather pirate the albums, buy merchandise, and use Vanced versions of streaming services
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Oooo a fresh take on the reality of the situation.
Yeah, that’s the notion I think I most identify with. I was like “support better behavior for a relatively low cost? Hmmm I guess so, there’s a huge value here and it feels like an olive branch”
And hoooo how wrong we all were. Never again will I ever trust one of these companies. Now, it’s me as a user and everything is transactional and always with a free alternative.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
People wouldn’t pirate your shit if it was easily and cheaply available
OrderedChaos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And won’t disappear the moment someone decides they won’t pay “licenses” for it to be on the service you paid for it.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
And, thinking specifically about Sony, doesn’t include rootkits or similar invasive security nightmares.
overload@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Haven’t hasn’t it been shown that people who pirate heavily actually spend more on media overall than those who do not?