Maybe Sony should have some things cutoff for that root kit, hmmm?
Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene
Submitted 2 weeks ago by moe90@feddit.nl to technology@lemmy.world
https://animecorner.me/sony-music-supreme-court-cut-off-internet-piracy/
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skribe@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m so glad the internet hasn’t forgiven them for that.
I’m a bit sad that not everyone remembers when they made up a movie critic so they would have good quotes to put on ads for Sony Pictures movies.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I also haven’t forgiven them for trying to sue people for simply watching the Geohot video, or removing alternative OS functionality from the PS3, or for trying to reinvent MMC/SD memory cards in a different shape and charge more for for them. Hell, I still haven’t forgiven them for SonicStage.
I won’t buy anything from Sony for any reason. I don’t care what it is. I made damn sure my most recent camera purchase wasn’t a Sony, no matter what the reviews said. That’s because they pissed me off 20 years ago and haven’t demonstrated any improvement in behavior since. Nerds have long memories.
Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They would sentence you to death while demanding that you pay for your own execution.
fed0sine@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Libertarian police
I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.
“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”
“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”
“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”
The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”
“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”
“Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”
He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.”
“Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”
I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.
“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t.
“Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up.
“Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?”
It didn’t seem like they did.
“Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Penn Jillette posters.”
Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.
I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it.
“Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.
Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.
“Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.
I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!”
He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.
“All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.”
“Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy.
“Because I was afraid.”
“Afraid?”
“Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.”
I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.
“Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.”
He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me.
Original Credit: newyorker.com/…/l-p-d-libertarian-police-departme…
sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Thank you for this. I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so hard on my lunch break ever
scintilla@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
This made me audibly sigh. They won’t put it like this but this genuinely the future some people want.
ERROR_100_000_100@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Can we do a “Cut Off” for CEOs? (French Style 😏)
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
“You wouldn’t SteAL a gUilLotINe!”
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
as digitized almost all societal functions are, we really should define basic internet access as a human right.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
but think of the corporations!
The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
So you’re saying you have a choice in ISPs? Sounds pretty cool.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
My area has around 3 or 4 competing ISPs.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I think they can also catch you seeding it.
The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 2 weeks 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.
EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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
MangoCats@feddit.it 2 weeks 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.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks 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!
fishos@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
It’s cyclical. The current generation of executive assholes failed to learn the lesson of their predecessors.
overload@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Is music piracy is still a major thing these days? I’ve not even considered it for years, because every music streaming platform has all the music, it seems.
Movie and TV show piracy must be so much more rampant because of the fragmentation creating inconvenience to consumers.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Music piracy isn’t rampant at all. It’s the “immigrant crime is out of control” of the internet.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
If anything, youtube is the biggest sharer of pirated music. You can listen to anything on it for free, from anyone.
boonhet@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
It’s mostly hipsters with modded iPods, everyone else just streams music. You can stream it in lossless quality on some platforms and download most played songs to your device if your mobile bandwidth is limited.
Hell I’m a weird hipster who likes to have local copies of things and even I’ve given up.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Audiophiles like me listen to local .flac files through external DAC’s for better sound. And I’m not a hipster. Also lots of music I like isn’t even on streaming.
errer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I use Foobar and Plexamp to listen to my FLAC collection. I have a lot of magazine CD inserts not readily available on the streaming platforms. Just feels really good knowing companies like Spotify aren’t making a dime off me.
scintilla@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Music piracy is just so much harder than streaming.
iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Japanese corporate culture is fucking terrible. I don’t understand how anyone can support these gaming companies.
pycorax@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
UMG and Warner Bros are Japanese? Lol
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Japanese corporate culture is atrocities ≠ American corporate culture isn’t atrocious
Both need some major reforms in order to be just non-awful, let alone acceptable.
j0ester@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Shut up, Sony. Stop pirating Adobe Apps then.
RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Well streaming shouldn’t have fucking won
Jhex@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks 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.
RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks 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
Teknikal@eviltoast.org 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Microsoft stole my copy of minecraft when they bought it
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Same
dulce_3t_decorum_3st@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
I pay for Netflix and get other shows that interest me elsewhere, they are few and come out every two years or so.
terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
They plan on suing all the ai companies too?
vane@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They won’t sue their inteleligence providers
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
primemagnus@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Sony would be in the running. But i think nestle would beat them on the top spot.
primemagnus@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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.
yournamehere@lemm.ee 2 weeks 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.
LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
everytime ppl hate murican corpos more
FYI, SONY is a Japanese multinational corporation.
jonathan@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You’re not wrong but culturally and historically, Sony Music is American.
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
As an American, I approve this message. It’s accurate.
quetzaldilla@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
as an American this is an absolute truth nuke.
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Fuck you Sony…
Signed a lifelong pirate.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
People wouldn’t pirate your shit if it was easily and cheaply available
OrderedChaos@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
And, thinking specifically about Sony, doesn’t include rootkits or similar invasive security nightmares.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
Litebit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We need a new internet, a new way to connect.
hyprn@lemmy.net.au 2 weeks ago
Some guy has already done it:
Litebit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nice, that is a pretty cool use of radio signal.
ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Same goes for other projects using the same frequencies. WiFi HaLow, LoRa/Meshtastic/LoRaWAN, Z Wave, Zigbee, Sigfox. All great tech.
normalexit@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
do these dumbasses think people pirate without vpns?
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I do. I’m an idiot and already got emails from my ISP.
muusemuuse@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I do and I never get emails from my ISP.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
BranBucket@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
riodoro1@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You stole a bottle of sprite from the store?
No running water for you.
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
You can just download a house now:
deathbird@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Like shouldn’t they just be suing the customers directly for a bazillion dollars at this point?
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sony: still trying to make the Betamax monetization plan work…
vane@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Cut us all off, so corporate can use internet, what they meant to use it for. Corporate Porn.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Haha the US is so fucking dumb bro I can’t
arararagi@ani.social 2 weeks ago
That’s dystopian, good luck finding a job besides servicing without internet.
QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Absolutely diabolical. Cutting off internet access is no different than cutting of electricity in modern society. Sure, you can live without it, but everything from paying your bills to getting a job or having a social life just got a whole lot harder. Fuck anyone who thinks this is a reasonable response.
Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
The cruelty is the point
dulce_3t_decorum_3st@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Also, the ignorance regarding VPNs.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Internet access is absolutely a utility in every function. And like a utility, most people don’t have a realistic alternative. Not without sky-high prices and/or slower speeds and less reliability. Thanks, Donald Trump.