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Court blocks $1 billion copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users’ piracy (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?"

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

In the end, you can't out-tech the law. You need rights.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Your so-called "rights" won't hold to the pressure of massive media capital alone. It will erode away.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They have so far. It's still legal to use a VPN without verifying my identity. It's still legal, though difficult, to access the Internet anonymously. The local police department doesn't blanket monitor everyone's search history.

increasingly difficult tech solutions for privacy are a bandaid not a cure.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

tech the law. You need rights. I'm not sure we can right-out the system, we probably need both.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The right to pirate?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

The right to privacy could help, like media company's can't use legal action to get IP addresses