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Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy

arstechnica.com Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy

Sony victory in Cox piracy case could be overturned by Supreme Court.

Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy

Copyright holders hire services that use bots to monitor file-sharing networks and send ISPs millions of notices a year alleging infringement by someone at a particular IP address, Cox told the Supreme Court. Cox said that ISPs "have no way of verifying whether a bot-generated notice is accurate" and that even if the notices are accurate, terminating an account would punish every user in a household where only one person may have illegally downloaded copyrighted files.

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  • I will support this on the single condition that all of Meta gets disconnected because they did piracy.

    In fact, all AIs are doing piracy. Cut off those companies too.

    YouTube gets cut off for hosting copyrighted material. Twitch is cut off.

    Twitter gets cut off for sharing copyrighted material.

    Google stole all those books. Cut it off.

    Do it all. Burn it to the ground.

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