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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.

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[–] [email protected] 236 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 month ago

AI shouldn’t be allowed to touch the internet because it’s basically stealing everything and never giving references which is plagiarism.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago

Come on, you don't think an industry that habitually uses automated takedown requests regardless of merit would falsely accuse anyone, do you?

[–] Gigasser 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CaptainSpaceman 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Need a new internet protocol that doesnt use ISPs

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (11 children)

You want a protocol that will build physical last-mile connections to peoples' houses?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I just woke up everyone in my house with a giggle fit thanks to you. Yes weed is involved.

That was amazing.

[–] AnUnusualRelic 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What about avian carriers?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I second this. Anyone know the code reference?

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[–] [email protected] 233 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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?

[–] Bahnd 60 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That is one way to stop junk mail...

[–] Chocrates 25 points 1 month ago

Sign me up!

[–] [email protected] 203 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Service termination based on accusation alone? What a great legal invention. Im sure it won't ever be abused

[–] FuglyDuck 98 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Time to start accusing the judges for shit.

See how they like it.

[–] billiam0202 62 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Fifth Circuit is fascist. They don't give a fuck what you accuse them of, cause they have no shame.

[–] FuglyDuck 41 points 1 month ago

Oh. It’s not shame. It’s annoying them with loss of internet privileges.

They’ll care because it inconveniences them while sending each other their pedo-porn stash.

[–] ngwoo 39 points 1 month ago

Send false notices to the business accounts of the law firms involved in this.

[–] [email protected] 180 points 1 month ago (4 children)

DMCA the fuck out of every media company.

Accuse them of piracy.

Is it true? Who gives a fuck.

Terminate their accounts.

[–] FuglyDuck 44 points 1 month ago

Also the judges. This way they can’t browse all their CP without fixing their fuck ups

[–] Arbiter 36 points 1 month ago

No, you see courts only apply this precedent when it can hurt poor people.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Exactly my thoughts! Who's the ISP for the RIAA?

[–] Wogi 16 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 month ago (2 children)

5th circuit is pure cancer.

[–] Etterra 14 points 1 month ago

If they were a real circuit they could withstand 10,000 volts.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

All circuits are bastards.

[–] formergijoe 92 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cool. Did any AI company pay for all their copywritten material? Surely OpenAI shouldn't have access to the internet anymore.

[–] FlyingSquid 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Copyrighted.

(Sorry, pet peeve.)

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

actually you dont even have to download shit, just appear on the fucking ip leech list, leech that shit yourself, and then fucking spam them to the ISP and music industry. See how long it takes them to respond lmao

[–] FlyingSquid 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

God damn it, right in the middle of me downloading a car.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think that's legal if it's a PT Cruiser

[–] FlyingSquid 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Station!

Sorry, your comment triggered a memory that i wanted to share for some reason.

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[–] Paddzr 49 points 1 month ago

And that's why internet HAS to be basic human right.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago

This is some bullshit.

[–] AshMan85 38 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I thought everyone is innocent until proven guilty?

[–] FuglyDuck 33 points 1 month ago

ISPs aren’t a court of law, and neither are the assholes going after the pirates.

In fact, the reality is they can’t go after them in a court of law because they don’t have enough evidence for it. Which is exactly why they want to be allowed to go all extra-judicial.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Did you really?

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The fifth circuit can die in a fire. It'd be a great preview of hell, too.

[–] newthrowaway20 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Good fuckin luck with that. You're just gonna have people adopting more obfuscated piracy methods.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

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

[–] GroundedGator 8 points 1 month ago

Get letter from crapcast about downloading copyrighted material. Next search: 'how to torrent without isp knowing'

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] j4k3 20 points 1 month ago

That is the end of democracy

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

turns Mullvad back on

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

5th circuit is dystopian political satire level horrendous.

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