Four more large Internet service providers told the US Supreme Court this week that ISPs shouldn’t be forced to aggressively police copyright infringement on broadband networks.

While the ISPs worry about financial liability from lawsuits filed by major record labels and other copyright holders, they also argue that mass terminations of Internet users accused of piracy “would harm innocent people by depriving households, schools, hospitals, and businesses of Internet access.” The legal question presented by the case “is exceptionally important to the future of the Internet,” they wrote in a brief filed with the Supreme Court on Monday.

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    3 months ago

    Terminating service over allegations of piracy. Kicking someone off the internet because an automated copyright system accused them of piracy. That’s crazy.

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    3 months ago

    The headline should read:

    Despite best efforts and all odds, ISPs find themselves on the right side of history.

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    3 months ago

    How can you hold a company responsible for someone else’s actions? When someone hits someone with a car we don’t go after the manufacturer. I think ISPs should only be held accountable for their own actions.

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    3 months ago

    If someone is using municipal water in their meth lab, the whole city block shouldn’t have their water shut off

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        3 months ago

        If internet companies want to make an argument like that, then internet should be treated as a utility.

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    3 months ago

    The supremes: oh! Yes! We are on your side ISPs! The MPAA and RIAA will now be allowed to sue individual users directly bypassing courts.

    Have fun! You got them boys! You got that 98 year old grandma! Get her house! And that minority girl trying to download the new Beyonce songs? Deathrow! 1 per song! All the single ladies our ass! You wouldn’t download a car! We’re the Supremes! Watch us! But first Trump is president starting now, and poor kids shall get no food in school! They wouldn’t be poor if they got food! Oh and women…we did the abortion thing already darn!..no vote for women! Marriage age 6 now, overruling all states laws.

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    3 months ago

    Why don’t they start with OpenAI and other LLM vendors, because they are the biggest copyright infringement abusers of all time?

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    3 months ago

    imagine getting banned from the one monopoly ISP available to you in your entire city. what do you do after that? sell your house?

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      3 months ago

      puts on fake moustache “Hello I am new to the area and would like to procure one internet please.”