Music publishing companies notched another court victory against a broadband provider that refused to terminate the accounts of Internet users accused of piracy. In a ruling on Wednesday, the conservative-leaning US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit sided with the big three record labels against Grande Communications, a subsidiary of Astound Broadband.
The appeals court ordered a new trial on damages because it said the $46.8 million award was too high, but affirmed the lower court’s finding that Grande is liable for contributory copyright infringement.
Exactly what law states internet connections should be terminated for users accused of piracy?
And are we going to selectively enforce this against poor people, or are they going to start demanding the trunk lines feeding AI datacenters be cut as well? (I asked rhetorically).
AI shouldn’t be allowed to touch the internet because it’s basically stealing everything and never giving references which is plagiarism.
Come on, you don’t think an industry that habitually uses automated takedown requests regardless of merit would falsely accuse anyone, do you?
Might be a good idea to torrent whatever you need before the corpos manage to get some law passed that makes it so that isps will have to terminate users for that.
Need a new internet protocol that doesnt use ISPs
You want a protocol that will build physical last-mile connections to peoples’ houses?
What about avian carriers?
Well the birds still have to link to the main network somewhere to exchange packets… which I assume would still be an ISP, unless all you want is local mesh networking.
I just woke up everyone in my house with a giggle fit thanks to you. Yes weed is involved.
That was amazing.
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what point are you trying to make?
It can cover a one-kilometer radius
So most of the last mile.
If we try to have cable or telcos do last-mile they’ll fuck us as hard as they possibly can, make laws guaranteeing themselves a permanent monopoly, etc.
We need wireless as a backup just to keep those worthless fuckers honest, then we can do a hybrid model with some scattered fiber ONTs terminating into wifi nodes.
What we really need is to string fiber on the power lines, but the telcos and comcast pay the power companies extra to stop that too.
Break the monopoly power and this all comes tumbling down.
“And then we can do a hybrid model” congratulations you just invented an ISP.
“Then we’ll string wires on poles” congratulations you just invented an ISP again.
Someone will still have to install and maintain the wireless access points, physically link them to the local network trunk and negotiate for service with the backbone provider… which would just be an ISP, who would sell you access to the WiFi system like a cellular provider.
This isn’t a problem that can be solved with technology. Monopolies have to be fixed with government oversight.
5th circuit is dystopian political satire level horrendous.
Service termination based on accusation alone? What a great legal invention. Im sure it won’t ever be abused
I suppose this means that if someone tells USPS that a burned DVD of The Bee Movie has been mailed to me, USPS should stop delivering any mail to me?
Good fuckin luck with that. You’re just gonna have people adopting more obfuscated piracy methods.
God damn it, right in the middle of me downloading a car.
I think that’s legal if it’s a PT Cruiser
That was one of the station cars at one of the TV stations where I worked because the station manager rented one at some conference and decided it was awesome.
What a piece of shit car.
Station!
Sorry, your comment triggered a memory that i wanted to share for some reason.
He’s got an excellently huge Martian butt.
