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.
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.
That could be a fun kind of ddos attack for a botnet - compromise your competitors’ machines and download collective TBs of infringing material, then report it as an anonymous whistleblower!
This is some bullshit.
Cool. Did any AI company pay for all their copywritten material? Surely OpenAI shouldn’t have access to the internet anymore.
Copyrighted.
(Sorry, pet peeve.)
Took me too long to realise that it does not come from “write”, but “right”
DMCA the fuck out of every media company.
Accuse them of piracy.
Is it true? Who gives a fuck.
Terminate their accounts.
Also the judges. This way they can’t browse all their CP without fixing their fuck ups
Well… they do hang out in the public torrents of movies, games, shows, etc.
That’s how they get IP addresses and have their bots send DMCA notices.
No, you see courts only apply this precedent when it can hurt poor people.
Exactly my thoughts! Who’s the ISP for the RIAA?
Comcast.
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?
That is one way to stop junk mail…
Sign me up!
The entire Bee movie in gif form:
that was my desktop once upon a time
Good fuckin luck with that. You’re just gonna have people adopting more obfuscated piracy methods.
Get letter from crapcast about downloading copyrighted material. Next search: ‘how to torrent without isp knowing’
At this point it’s just the n00bs. Everyone who knows shit about shit isn’t going to be caught in one of these dragnets
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).
Asking the real question.
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 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.
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.
“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.
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.
I second this. Anyone know the code reference?
That is the end of democracy
I miss-posted.
how so?
I don’t know, I was answering a post, and it went to answer OP instead. Not a big deal.
oh, I misunderstood
I only read the headline, but I don’t wanna die because some bands make it impossible to buy their music on shitty, poorly designed websites.
No, they want that one
5th circuit is dystopian political satire level horrendous.
turns Mullvad back on
The fifth circuit can die in a fire. It’d be a great preview of hell, too.
