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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] 233 points 4 days ago (4 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?

[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That is one way to stop junk mail...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago

Sign me up!

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[–] [email protected] 236 points 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (14 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.

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[–] [email protected] 203 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 98 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Time to start accusing the judges for shit.

See how they like it.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 92 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Copyrighted.

(Sorry, pet peeve.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Took me too long to realise that it does not come from "write", but "right"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

5th circuit is dystopian political satire level horrendous.

[–] [email protected] 180 points 4 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days 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] 49 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 4 days ago (2 children)

5th circuit is pure cancer.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

All circuits are bastards.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 days 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 4 days 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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

turns Mullvad back on

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 days ago

This is some bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I thought everyone is innocent until proven guilty?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days 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] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm working on a decentralised sharing protocol, which means nobody would know what people are doing in the first place (except if they compromise your pc ofc).

It's in its early stages but has a fully functional implementation.

You can check it out, how it functions, how to install and use it etc here : https://tenfingers.org

Any feedback greatly appreciated!

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days 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

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (2 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.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

That is the end of democracy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

that was my desktop once upon a time

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