Copyright holders hire services that use bots to monitor file-sharing networks and send ISPs millions of notices a year alleging infringement by someone at a particular IP address, Cox told the Supreme Court. Cox said that ISPs “have no way of verifying whether a bot-generated notice is accurate” and that even if the notices are accurate, terminating an account would punish every user in a household where only one person may have illegally downloaded copyrighted files.
Accused? Not convicted but accused?!
This Supreme Court may just love that!
If there is one thing the Conservative Majority SCOTUS likes is a to “answer” a question no one is asking.
Citizens United was based off an FEC decision about the Michael Moore, a commercial film maker, the docudrama Farenheite 9/11 which was critical of the Bush administration’s response to the 9/11 territorist attacks. The Complaint was the film was political advertisement 60 days before a general election. The FEC decided the film could be aired before the 2004 election as it didn’t support one candidate and only referenced how it was handled not current commentary In advertisements, and therefore was not not a political advertisement for a single candidate.
In response, Citizens United produced a “documentary” Celcius 41.11" which was critical of the Farenheite 9/11 and John Kerry’s actual policies. The FEC ruled this was clearly was a political advertisement put out by not a bona fide commercial film studio, and therefore could no be aired 60 days out from a general election.
What was argued to SCOTUS: Celcius 41.11 should be legal bc we did like Farenheite 9/11 and do not like John Kerry’s 2004 presidential policies
What SCOTUS ruled: Coperations could spend unlimited funds to be critical of an individual’s policies just so long as there was no coordination between the corporation and the candidate that said that the corporation supports
WTF this is even stupider that I thought. This is “Citizens United”?
Well, that was a bit of a stretch. Citizens United was challenging the law used by the FEC to stop their film. That law was first and foremost a law about banning advertising, money collection, and campaigning by non-campaign sources. So the Supreme Court was answering the asked question.
So… Meta?
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I’m old
The Sony rootkit was 20 years ago!
I had two big screen TVs, receiver, PS3, audio gear, Dv cam. When they forced me to choose between disabling Linux boot on the PS3 or using Netflix just literally stripping away features I paid for, I never bought another Sony product.
They used to fill living rooms and be all over personal wear. Now they make an ok showing in what, mirrorless cameras?
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It was not Netflix. At a certain point Sony decided to strip the future from the PlayStation you didn’t have to strip the future but you could no longer update the PlayStation.
Netflix was first to require a newer version of the OS but sooner or later every game and every streaming title would require you to update to play the latest version.
They stripped it under the guise of piracy, It did absolutely nothing to stop piracy. The most they accomplished was keeping you from making a ISO of a disc after a long convoluted Linux install.
There were already blueray drives on the market that could read them enough to produce an ISO. It’s not like you could play any of the PlayStation games under Linux.
Furthermore, if you decided you didn’t want to game or stream on it anymore you could have left Linux on it and if anybody was really pirating using that feature they would have just bought another one and played on it. The only person they f***** over in this scenario was the average consumer.
Well, I don’t own shit from Sony anymore
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I went from full piracy to legit (netflix, steam etc) just to be driven back to piracy,
I think most of us who were of job age did the same. $10 a month not to worry about disc failures, shitty updates and they have most of what I want to watch? HELLS YES. We were naive to think they’d keep it going. They’re all trying to get up to that $100 per month per head cable price.
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So does that just mean I can claim that I’m an AI company and need to download all this copyright material for my “start up?”
Are you a billionaire?
Dang it, you’re right.
Do I have an investment opportunity for you, you can buy in for the low low price of a billion dollars.
Allegedly?
We going to shut down Sony for pirating Adobe software and other companies?
A VPN is fast becoming essential internet isn’t it?
Me: *looks at my 10-15TB/mo VPN usage*
It’s totally legit, I swear! Nothing but Linux ISOs and repo clones!
I upload almost 1tb/day lol
That tends to happen in autocratic states.
In case anyone needed proof that intellectual property is a dystopian concept.
Dont doomsay so much, there’s a completely reasonable balance… that we are exceptionally far away from, because society is a kangaroo court on sale for the highest bidder.
Time to have an AI shut down Sony’s Internet? Maybe all the concurring judges?
The only reason I think this won’t pass is AI needs to steal copy written data. If there wasn’t a corporate shithead doing it then I’m sure the Supreme Court would allow this
You see, the corporate shithead will just share a gratuity with a few justices of choice. That’s how this court has been running for years.
I will support this on the single condition that all of Meta gets disconnected because they did piracy.
In fact, all AIs are doing piracy. Cut off those companies too.
YouTube gets cut off for hosting copyrighted material. Twitch is cut off.
Twitter gets cut off for sharing copyrighted material.
Google stole all those books. Cut it off.
Do it all. Burn it to the ground.
Trump is supporting Cox in saying they ISPs shouldn’t be forced to disconnect pirates
Guess the check cleared
This terrifies me.
VPN.
And make sure you bind it to the app, otherwise when it disconnectsit will expose you
