5th Circuit rules ISP should have terminated Internet users accused of piracy
ISP Grande loses appeal as 5th Circuit sides with Universal, Warner, and Sony.
The 5th circuit includes Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi so they can go fuck themselves. You think I'll live by the opinion of some backwater states? Only a corrupt supreme court would uphold this ruling-ohhh fuckity fuck fuck!
so they can go fuck themselves.
They didn't need your permission. That's how they keep breaking records for lowest IQ. ;)
If they were any more inbred, they'd be a sandwich.
You are the hero we deserve. Take my upvote.
If y'all don't like it, encourage your friends in Texas to fucking vote. This kangaroo court gets to be the reliable Conservative rubber stamp it is, because they're appointed by whatever president is in power when vacancies become available.
Biden was able to appoint two, and Obama appointed two, Clinton one. Bush Jr. appointed four, Reagan appointed two, and Trump appointed fucking six, which explains why they constantly capitulate to big business.
Voting matters. There is so much at stake.
You do realize that federal judges crib notes from judges in other jurisdictions, right? As in, while this ruling probably doesn't directly effect you, if there's a similar case in your jurisdiction, they'll look at this decision and probably side with it if the facts of the case are similar enough.
This needs to go to the next level. Do some torrenting off of the public wifi at the courthouse and get the courthouse's internet terminated.
I wish that would work.
Laws are only for the peasants to follow
A company "accusing" someone of piracy isn't proof. Access to the internet is almost essential these days. If you can prove a person is pirating prosecute them under the law with fines or even incarceration if warranted. But stripping internet access from someone shouldn't be seen as an acceptable punishment for a free citizen anyway.
Whoever owns the network attached to the IP address also shouldn't be responsible for actions of every user. Let's ban an entire company, college, or government institution from the internet because an IP showed up on a list... dumb ruling.
It's like turning off the electric of someone accused of growing weed. Typical conservative response
Remember to turn off their sunlight too!
And while we're at it, let's cut the wind off at their property as well, so they can't generate any local wind power!
And definitely take away their fruits and zinc and copper, so they can't build their own massive multi-lemon batteries, which they will otherwise rapidly upscale by growing even more lemons, using the same array of lemon-powered LEDs that also grew that weed, all in an infinite loop of lemon kush! We really can't let that happen.
So no due process, just "cut the Internet of the people we tell you to." What the fuck?
How's that plutocracy piss taste?
5th Circuit
Me: Better get ready for some bullshit.
Hey someone's gotta keep the average IQ of a lawyer bell curve balanced. I'm pretty sure the 5th circuit is the equivalent to "Florida Man" in the legal space.
The theory I heard on the Strict Scrutiny podcast is that the 5th Circuit exists to write atrocious opinions on terrible rulings so that the Supreme Court can make rulings that are only 85% as horrible as that so the SC can seem more reasonable by comparison.
The fifth circuit believes regional monopolies should be exploited to control consumers.
With proper competition, banning someone for suspected misuse would only chase them to competitors.
The fifth circuit is incompetent.
Owch, I should start a blog. My chain of thought went from this to meshnets and presumption of innocence, and in the dispersed intersections of these to communications control and totalitarianism, and there I wrote some kind of socio-political rant (again) for a fiction book or movie.
I can't erase that much text, so it's under a spoiler tag.
Sony, WB, and Universal logic:
The people at that address probably use water to make meth. Cut off their water so they can’t make meth.
Or they received a USB cable, which they later used to transfer pirated files, in an envelope... Remove their mailbox! (Or force every postal service person to ignore it...)
Terminated the user or the users access? Can't be too careful with wording from judges these days.
Terminate the users but only the ones that were accused
Guilty until proven innocent is classic conservatism
Judge Dredd kicks down the door
Like how a million Floridians evacuated lol
We ARE past the days of T-Model 101. Although Arnod looks a bit older these days....
more like 5th circus
I'm just glad they're still distracted with torrents...
If this is the case then artists should be able to shut down internet access for AI companies that steal their work in those states.
It's only illegal when an individual does it, when it's a giant corporation, it's called innovation. /s
This doesn't seem to be a problem in the UK. I've been pirating for years and never even received a letter from my ISP.
ISPs won't do shit that would affect their bottom line. If they play ball with this it's a slippery slope to mass cullings of their subscriber base.
In Canada, I get letters (well emails) when I rawdawg some torrents; but it's never gone further than that.
Prior to using usenet, I constantly torrented w/o a VPN (talking 10+ TB of data across 3ish years) and received a new email notice or two every other day. I've still got a folder with 60+ notices. ISP doesn't give af, they just forward the copyright notice in the form it was sent to them, and that's it.
Now though I primarily use usenet and haven't gotten a notice since. Downloads are also way way more reliable and faster.
It is still better be on the err side and leave no trace they can use aginst.
One of my mates has been pinged for it before, but it seems like he just got a stern letter.
I put my setup behind a VPN anyway. Proton hasn't done me wrong yet.
I've had a couple of vapid emails from VirginMedia for one (Animal Kingdom) of many TV shows I've downloaded over the years.
Shame they didn't send it by snail mail, could've got some free toilet paper out of them then.
These "owners" are pathetic... Get a VPN tho fuck them
Needs to go higher.
It's not.
The 5th Circuit remanded the case to the district court for a new trial on damages. Record labels can expect a lower payout because the appeals court said they can't obtain separate damages awards for multiple songs on the same album.
Soooooo VPN?
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