“Imagine losing internet access because someone in your household downloaded pirated music.”
Sony so mad at Cox for not cutting off someone’s Internet for downloading they’ll take it to the SCOTUS, but they won’t even use the frankly abusive laws they already have access to to just sue the end user? What is even going on?
Because those laws aren’t doing enough to scare people into obeying. This is the next step in trying to terrorize people into submission.
Sony wanted mo money. Yo money wasn’t enough for them. So they got a jury to agree that Cox owes them 1 Billion dollars.
Let’s all sing about how much we love Corporate Governance.
Please don’t shut off my internet telecom daddy I’ll drink another Mountain Dew Verification Can!
I am fully confident they will make the worst, and most unconstitutional, choice.
Of course, the illegitimate Fed Soc ones will
I’m gonna go to businesses I don’t like, hop on the Wi-Fi, and pirate from all the most obvious trackers.
This seems like the best strategy realistically. If scotus makes it everyones problem, then make it a problem for those with the most to lose from losing internet access.
Starbucks in particular would have a bad time lol
Nah, then it just becomes a defacto situation of the content creation companies (Disney, Sony, etc) owning the telecom companies. So you will truly be a single content household, like a Disney Household or a Paramount Household.
USians are gonna be required to get federal internet licenses but not federal gun licenses
Remember when a certain company just paid a large fine for pirating information to train AI?
So step 1 should be to remove Internet access to Meta, if you aren’t going to do that, then it is 100% corrupt.
Should the USPS/AusPost/your local postal service be allowed to cut off a household’s postal service because someone received pirated CDs in the mail? That’s essentially the same thing. If anything, internet access is more important than mail these days.
A private business keeps accusing you of operating a meth lab using city water, now they get to sue the city water provider for not cutting you off. That’s basically what this is
This is probably a better analogy. Thanks.
I agree that cutting off internet access because of illegal activities is a slippery slope. It’s important to balance the need for protecting intellectual property with individual rights. At the same time, I think it’s crucial to consider the potential consequences of such measures.
I hope the SCOTUS justices aren’t using 3-strikes-you’re-out ISPs! All it would take is three random DMCA takedown notices and they’d lose Internet.
What a FASCINATING concept!
Wanna push everyone to the dark web? This is how you do it. People will just become obsessed with covering their tracks. You’ll have to rip open countless companies and organizations to get this to work. Fuck 'em. Prying eyes can eat shit and die.
Simply running away is not a winning move in the long run. You risk losing people along each ever more complex method as the technical debt grows greater and greater. And you cannot exhaust the system backed by trillions of dollars.
The only solution comes from challenging the states authority to do so in the first place.
You might be exaggerating people’s technical knowledge, desire to increase their technical knowledge, and / or their desire to effect change.
… or their disposable energy after working 10h and caring for the kids.
TOR is easy enough to set up that if you know how to install a program on your computer and run it, you’re good to go. It’s not the ideal way to run TOR, and is still somewhat insecure, but can be done in a few clicks.
Back in the early 00’s, the amount of people learning how to download pirated music safely, arrange and burn a CD with it skyrocketed. Fast forward a few years and people with no real computer skills were learning how to rip and burn DVDs.
I wouldn’t underestimate the potential of people with motivation to circumvent an oppressive system.
Most people won’t run an ad blocker.
Most people don’t know extensions exist. Because they don’t care and have never been shown.
Pissing someone off is a strong motivator for them to start searching though.
Running i2p or Tor isn’t that challenging and demand drives innovation. I could see one-click solutions taking off in a few months if people were willing to pay a few bucks a month to download basically anything the dark web can offer.
Exactly this. Streaming was a thing long time before Netflix, but they made it so damn easy.
Now Netflix fucked it, and streaming piracy became so damn easy that more people did it than before.
If they close down piracy streaming/download, guess what. Dark web access, or i2p maybe, will be so damn easy.
People are willing to do it, if there’s no service that’s worth it’s money.
Piracy is a service issue. Most of us would pay, if the service is good enough.
“Wanna learn about the threats to your livelihood posed by this upcoming court case? Pay us just $5 a month! Don’t worry, we’ll automatically increase that to $10 a month after three months. No action required.”
Careful, you could lose Internet access for that
😘
