According to the article this is the USA. How on brand.
Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy
Submitted 23 hours ago by tonytins@pawb.social to technology@lemmy.world
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Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 42 minutes ago
mesamunefire@piefed.social 5 hours ago
This is how you get a new darknet.
themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
Yep there is no way they can block I2P, they have to block all of it.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
All public wifi will be disconnected pretty quickly.
sad_detective_man@leminal.space 3 hours ago
let’s all fall on our sword to make sure Disney never loses a potential subscriber for Marvel Wars. Truly, we are defending the interests of the people here
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
“the internet” is a necessity and requirement to function in society. You can’t be denied access to it anymore, it would be disproportionate.
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 6 hours ago
Pretty sure I have read somewhere that it is now also an official necessity in Germany
Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
I think in Finland it is a basic utility like power and water. It is certainly priced like that.
utopiah@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Exactly, sure disconnect customers from the Internet if they use it for entertainment… but once they use it to earn the income that pays their bills, it becomes questionable… and once it is in practice required to be a citizen, at the local, national or supra national level then it becomes a totally different question, to which the answer is basically no, you can’t disconnect someone otherwise you remove their citizenship.
DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 15 hours ago
If it’s upheld, that’s the precursor to full-blown info blackouts, just cut off internet to anyone ‘accused’ of wrongspeak against the powers that be, which is basically everyone.
0x0@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Oh, so like they do in the uncivilized middle-east?
NaaaahDFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 2 hours ago
Given the US is now ran by the New Fuhrer? I could see that happening.
PanaX@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Based on that logic, ammunition and arms manufacturers should be held liable for damages as well.
compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
Yes, but that would mean that logic has any bearing on what the Supreme Court decides to do
ryper@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
The US has a law to limit the liability of gun manufacturers.
The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) is a U.S law, passed in 2005, that protects firearms manufacturers and dealers from being held liable when crimes have been committed with their products. Both arms manufacturers and dealers can still be held liable for damages resulting from defective products, breach of contract, criminal misconduct, and other actions for which they are directly responsible. However, they may be held liable for negligent entrustment if it is found that they had reason to believe a firearm was intended for use in a crime.
Luffy879@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
Because of fucking course there is
Were talking about Jesusland after all
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
More like, if you steal something you are banned from using roads and sidewalks and doors.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
Yeah, sure but to “steal something” is to imply that you’re depriving the original owner use of the thing you stole. This is more like making an exact copy depriving nobody of use of the original thing.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Being accused of will lose you access to basic infrastructure? Why not cut electricity too?
rozodru@lemmy.world 25 minutes ago
give it a few months, they’re working up to it.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Don’t give them ideas. Next they’ll cut the blood stream to your brain.
medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Supreme Court: “One of us! One of us!”
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Pretty sure they’ve already done that by not regulating social media better
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I’m not a judge, but isn’t internet essentially a utility these days? Cutting someone off because of piracy seems like cutting off electricity or water because they did something illegal with it.
Taleya@aussie.zone 21 hours ago
Not even piracy. Accusations thereof.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
This would be the case had net neutrality not been killed off nearly a decade ago
ryper@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
I’m pretty sure this supreme court would rule that people don’t have a right to electricity, or even water. They’ll probably be totally ok with people losing internet access as punishment for crossing media owners.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
or even water
We never stopped the “lol treaties with Native American tribes don’t count” bullshit.
flandish@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
accused piracy, too. Not proven. Not convicted. Just “pirate go bye bye.”
Telorand@reddthat.com 22 hours ago
Pragmatically, yes. Legally, no. Progressives have been fighting for years to get internet classified as a utility in the US, and regressives and (ironically) internet companies have been fighting against that effort at every turn in the name of profit.
And now look how well that’s turned out. Gee, if only some people had warned them that deregulation was a monkey’s paw…
SillyDude@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
Inb4 palantir cuts off your electric and water because you had 15% eye distraction during the mandatory 3hr nightly fox news viewing.
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
bottle water companies would love this, as would the oil giants
A7thStone@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I’m some places in the States they will cut off your electricity or water for sharing with a neighbor that has had theirs shut off. I have seen both happen personally, and not in some back water state. They both happened in upstate NY.
CandleTiger@programming.dev 19 hours ago
Cut off for sharing, or cut off for running illegal/unsafe/unlicensed wiring and plumbing connections?
JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I’m not a United Statesian so I have no clue anymore how it works there, but other places have been making the case that the Internet is an essential service and that access to it is a basic right. So to leapfrog off your question, is that like a poor person stealing a loaf of bread being cut off from food because they didn’t food responsibly enough?
BrazenSigilos@ttrpg.network 20 hours ago
Unfortunately the country I was born in, the USA, is also one that voted against the international resolution to define food as a human right. 😕
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
didn’t many European countries remove People’s hand for theft a few centuries ago?
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
They will cut off electricity if you do something illegal with it…
HubertManne@piefed.social 20 hours ago
more importantly because of accused. Just accused.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Accused???
Now just a second…
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
And OpenAI of course.
Antagnostic@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
But it’s not piracy if you use it for an LLM, right‽
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
So if Meta is convicted of pirating books for AI training, they lose all internet connectivity? 🧐
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
dint they just rule AI can legally scrape/books, but not for people who are pirating directly.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 8 hours ago
The US is such a silly place. Everything is so wrong.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
IIRC the judge said they could use the data for training, but specifically added that piracy is still piracy and he didn’t rule on that.
So Disney can just sue Meta for one trillion 😀
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
so then individuals could just train a model locally on the shittiest hardware they have
clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
God willing
catty@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
lol, they’ll have no customers! ISPs used to send ‘warning’ letters to customers in England but that’s all.
hansolo@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
Same in the US.
I got one once from something I know for sure I didn’t download. I always assumed it was a friend of mine staying with us that was torrenting “Boss’s Daughter Big Booty XXX” or whatever it was, but I never really wanted to ask.
Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
This still won’t make me pay for Netflix
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
But it will make me pay for VPNs!
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I nominate we test with out with the Zuck and his networks.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 18 hours ago
And now I’m on a VPN because if they’re just gonna cut people off for accusing of piracy they’re gonna have to cut off everyone with a VPN.
TBH I should have been behind a VPN before
Tower@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Mullvad is the best $5 and change I spend each month.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
I love Mullvad and used them for years, but without port forwarding, they’re not the service you want for torrenting. Some alternatives like AirVPN or ProtonVPN are better suited for that stuff.
Before the haters jump in and tell me “it works fine fer me!” it’s only working because the user on the other end, like myself, have port forwarding set up. Since you don’t have it, you’ll never connect to anyone else like yourself nor will they be able to connect to you.
Of course there are alternatives like streaming and Usenet but there are tradeoffs no matter what you pick.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Corporate America over here committing piracy en masse.
DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
They have ways to block / identify VPNs.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
I think the point is that they can’t easilly track back to a specific client of a specific ISP instances of unlicensed downloading of copyrighted materials if they’re done behind a VPN.
Mind you, they can still easilly track it back to the VPN, so make sure you’re using a provider that puts privacy above all an is not based in countries like the US or UK.
hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
I recommend AirVPN. Never had a problem w/ them & doesn’t require a special VPN client.
qaz@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I also use them but I often get blocked from sites when it’s on
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Ditto.
sturlabragason@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Here i am again doing my duty mullvad.net/en/why-privacy-matters
PeachMan@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Protip for anyone unfamiliar: Mullvad really is the gold standard for a private VPN. If you just want to pirate shit and not get angry letters from your ISP, Nord or PIA will accomplish that. But if you REALLY want privacy, Mullvad is it.
betweenthesixes@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
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DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
I personally prefer Proton. They seem to get blocked less often.
(And yes I’m aware of the CEO controversy, he seems more like a Libertarian to me, not some right wing extremist)
Luffy879@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
But if you need to pay for a „Media Flatrate“ anyway, and you have those 5€ a month, why not spend it for a good cause?
(Also PIA and nord cost 12€ a month unless you sign their predatory 2 year contracts, so mullvad is just way better in that regard too)
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 18 hours ago
Idk why but the simplicity of it has me convinced and so far it works well.
altphoto@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
In the beginning we used to exchange cassettes. You would have a boombox with two cassettes. You would play one while you recorded on the other. Then you gave the cassette back to your friend. Next was the VCR with the big ass cassettes.
Then you would do the same with floppies, then zip disks. Then one day CD recording was a thing, then DVDs. Then thumb drives and now portable HDDs. Basically the cheapest form or recording is always the most popular way for people to share stuff.
The only ones who don’t want us to share are those who want to make millions by never innovating.
r0ertel@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I couldn’t afford one of those fancy 2-cassette boomboxes, so I had my friend bring his tape deck and we put them real close together in the quietest room of the house and recorded that way. Having several siblings meant that there were no quiet places, so we used the empty garage when my parents were at work. The audio was autrocious, tons of echo and static, but I played that tape thin until it snapped.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
Pirate everything, death to the capitalists.
peteyestee@feddit.org 16 hours ago
Get to the point that you don’t want their products. Stealing their stuff is like sporting brand name cloths and covering the logo.
Hawk17@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Dude - this is the truth. Thanks for giving me something to work towards.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
4G piracy hub go brrrrr? Go ahead, disconnect me. I will get another SIM and resume piracy.
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
(Donald trump voice) “We should hold all food companys liable for users violent crimes, this man stabbed another man to death with a spoon! 30 minutes before he ate kraft mac and cheese. It gave him the energy to violently stab this innocent man”
Lets hope they got common sense
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
I’m not doing piracy, I’m just trading a lot of data packets with a Proton Server in Switzerland, nothing to see here 😉
Kelp@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
So this might be a good place to ask. How is a Trojan Proxy Server suited for anonymous piracy? Is it better or worse in case this passes?
solarspark@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Life depends more on accessing things online. This would just be punishing people beyond the scope of the case against people.
obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
The unproven claims is the key part here. Also the point of “terminating an account would punish every user in a household” is important as well.
You can fine someone for piracy if you want. As long as they have the standard legal protections. But cutting access is excessive.
yucandu@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Just do what we do in Canada. Send them threatening letters. It scares 90% of parents into telling their kids to knock that shit off, but they’re toothless and can’t actually do anything, and the remaining 10% still pirate away. Everyone’s happy.
peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Guess it’s time to go underground, sigh.
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Like 20 years ago the RAVE Act said venues can be charged if anyone is in possession of illegal drugs inside of them during an event. Similar in some ways
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
What about legitimate torrented content? Are they going to outlaw the technology outright? Don’t plenty of legitimate downloads use torrents to speed up software updates and such?
Pro@programming.dev 20 hours ago
Better source: torrentfreak.com/supreme-court-grants-coxs-bid-to…
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 30 minutes ago
Lol.
Do ISPs like making money?
Then they shouldn’t disconnect users who pirate.
I get notifications from my ISP all the time. They don’t do anything though because they like the money I give them.