One thing that leaps out at me about this ruling is that courts understand the internet a lot better nowadays. A decade or so ago Sony would have probably gotten away with the argument that Cox profited from the users’ piracy; nowadays judges themselves use the internet and are going to go “lolno, they probably would have been Cox customers anyway. It’s not like anyone pays for internet connection solely to pirate. And in most areas people don’t even have a choice of provider, so how is Cox profiting from this?”
Internet is a utility and should be treated as such.
Up next Sony sues Pacific Gas & Electric for profiting off of piracy. All those torrents were powered by Pacific Gas & Electric.
Sues corning for making all that glass that transmitted the piracy.
And finally, after suing everyone, sue the almighty himself, who dared to bring all these pirates into existence.
I agree but the average person doesn’t even know what that means.
If you were a true american you’d be for privatization of all utilties
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Media Corporations should not have a say in disconnecting users from the internet based on copyright infringement. The right to social participation is part of a basic human right - self-determination. Today, the majority of interactions with society involve communication via internet in one way or another, so that access to the internet is vital for enabling social participation.
Yeah, it’s somehow comparable to a scenario where they had the power to decide you can’t use uber/taxi, or postal services, because you used it to transport the HDD you’re using for your private collection of copyright-protected media.
Billion? What are they smoking???
Ikr? It’s like they’re counting every act of digital piracy ever to be their lost profits when that’s obviously not the case.
Spoons made me fat!
I live in Brazil, there are many problems here and stuff. But at least no one gives a fuck about piracy, lol. Never needed a VPN for torrents, not gonna need anytime soon.
1 billion dollars over pirated music? Who pirates music amymore
