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ISP to Supreme Court: We shouldn’t have to disconnect users accused of piracy (arstechnica.com)
submitted 4 months ago by flop_leash_973 to c/technology
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It feels dirty to agree with an ISP on something. But even the worst corporations are on the right side of something from time to time I suppose.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Small ISPs have zero interest in enforcing piracy. They don't want to lose the customers on their highest tiers. Comcast though, they suck

[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago (1 children)

enforcing piracy

NOTICE

YOU HAVE NOT MET YOUR MONTHLY PIRACY QUOTA

YOU WILL BE TERMINATED,

THANKS.

[–] yamanii 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is actually how private trackers operate lol, I got banned from one because I forgot to torrent anything in over 3 months since I was playing a huge game during that time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

This is why I have a seedbox. A small monthly fee to maintain access to sites that are impossible to join nowadays