The Supreme Court Is About to Hear a Case That Could Rewrite Internet Access

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• dan@upvote.au ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Should the USPS/AusPost/your local postal service be allowed to cut off a household’s postal service because someone received a pirated CD in the mail? That’s essentially the same thing.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A private business keeps accusing you of operating a meth lab using city water, now they get to sue the city water provider for not cutting you off. That’s basically what this is

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is probably a better analogy. Thanks.

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  • snowby@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hey there,

    I understand where you’re coming from, and I agree that cutting off internet access because of illegal activities is a slippery slope. It’s important to balance the need for protecting intellectual property with individual rights. At the same time, I think it’s crucial to consider the potential consequences of such measures.

    In terms of the comparison to postal services, I do see your point. While I believe that internet access is more critical in today’s digital world, it’s essential to address the issue without resorting to drastic measures like shutting off someone’s mail service.

    Keep on keepin’ on!

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• Freefall@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I am fully confident they will make the worst, and most unconstitutional, choice.

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  • jali67@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Of course, the illegitimate Fed Soc ones will

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• Prox@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m gonna go to businesses I don’t like, hop on the Wi-Fi, and pirate from all the most obvious trackers.

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  • ChaosSpectre@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This seems like the best strategy realistically. If scotus makes it everyones problem, then make it a problem for those with the most to lose from losing internet access.

    Starbucks in particular would have a bad time lol

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    • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nah, then it just becomes a defacto situation of the content creation companies (Disney, Sony, etc) owning the telecom companies. So you will truly be a single content household, like a Disney Household or a Paramount Household.

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• Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wanna push everyone to the dark web? This is how you do it. People will just become obsessed with covering their tracks. You’ll have to rip open countless companies and organizations to get this to work. Fuck ‘em. Prying eyes can eat shit and die.

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  • hogmomma@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You might be exaggerating people’s technical knowledge, desire to increase their technical knowledge, and / or their desire to effect change.

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    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Running i2p or Tor isn’t that challenging and demand drives innovation. I could see one-click solutions taking off in a few months if people were willing to pay a few bucks a month to download basically anything the dark web can offer.

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    • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      TOR is easy enough to set up that if you know how to install a program on your computer and run it, you’re good to go. It’s not the ideal way to run TOR, and is still somewhat insecure, but can be done in a few clicks.

      Back in the early 00’s, the amount of people learning how to download pirated music safely, arrange and burn a CD with it skyrocketed. Fast forward a few years and people with no real computer skills were learning how to rip and burn DVDs.

      I wouldn’t underestimate the potential of people with motivation to circumvent an oppressive system.

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    • dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      … or their disposable energy after working 10h and caring for the kids.

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Simply running away is not a winning move in the long run. You risk losing people along each ever more complex system as the technical debt grows greater and greater. And you cannot exhaust the system backed by trillions of dollars.

    The only solution comes from challenging the states authority to do so in the first place.

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• deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sony so mad at Cox for not cutting off someone’s Internet for downloading they’ll take it to the SCOTUS, but they won’t even use the frankly abusive laws they already have access to to just sue the end user? What is even going on?

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  • Typhoon@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because those laws aren’t doing enough to scare people into obeying. This is the next step in trying to terrorizing people into submission.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sony wanted mo money. Yo money wasn’t enough for them. So they got a jury to agree that Cox owes them 1 Billion dollars.

    Let’s all sing about how much we love Corporate Governance.

    ^Please don’t shut off my internet telecom daddy I’ll drink another Mountain Dew Verification Can!^

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• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Remember when a certain company just paid a large fine for pirating information to train AI?

  So step 1 should be to remove Internet access to Meta, if you aren’t going to do that, then it is 100% corrupt.

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• TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Wanna learn about the threats to your livelihood posed by this upcoming court case? Pay us just $2.99 a month!”

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  • MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    archive.is/L19nM

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    • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      😘

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    • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Careful, you could lose Internet access for that

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• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  USians are gonna be required to get federal internet licenses before they are required to get federal gun licenses

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• riskable@programming.dev ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I hope the SCOTUS justices aren’t using 3-strikes-you’re-out ISPs! All it would take is three random DMCA takedown notices and they’d lose Internet.

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  • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What a FASCINATING concept!

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