Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene
Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene
The Supreme Court has been asked to intervene in a ruling won by UMG, Sony Music Entertainment, and more, which forces an ISP to terminate customers for piracy.
I've never forgiven Sony for decades deleting an account with paid for expensive games on it, they claimed inactivity for 6 months and UK law meant they had to.
No other account (with purchases) I have has ever just got deleted on me and you better believe Sony are never getting a single penny from me again.
Fuck you Sony...
Signed a lifelong pirate.
You can just download a house now:
That's dystopian, good luck finding a job besides servicing without internet.
Reason #56,789 of why Sony is on my permanent embargo list since 2002. They treat their customers like absolute shit. And they pay their bills.
If Sony is involved you know it’s straight sleaze. If there was an award for most evil company, they’d be leading.
Sony's part of the fine was raised by a third for trying to obstruct the investigation by refusing to answer inquiries made by the EU officials and shredding of evidence during the multiple law-enforcement raids.
From their part in the videotape price fixing snafu back some 20 years. That’s how they roll.
Sony would be in the running. But i think nestle would beat them on the top spot.
They’d both be graping each others mothers for the prize I’m sure…
Funnily enough, my old employer hired an HR rep… formerly from Nestle. Just, wow. Like the worst kind of human I’ve ever met. Man can these shitty companies spot “talent.”
I’m convinced to work for either, you need to film yourself eating the liver from a blind baby in your final interview.
Like shouldn't they just be suing the customers directly for a bazillion dollars at this point?
It costs a holiday and a nice dinner to make the SCOTUS say "um, ackchually, the constitution doesn't say anything about access to the internet".
I won't use a phone company that listens to my calls and criticizes me for who I speak with. I won't use an internet provider that monitors what I download or shares that info with third parties. The only other way to catch someone downloading, is if an agent of the copyright holder is uploading the torrent file.
If you hire private security to give me free beer outside of your store, you can't accuse me of shoplifting because I accepted the free beer.
We need a new internet, a new way to connect.
But what if you could chain the smart phones and laptops of the world together using WiFi and Bluetooth to create a wireless network that was free and open to everyone, with no need for Big Telecom?
https://www.wired.com/2017/06/pied-pipers-new-internet-isnt-just-possible-almost/
Some guy has already done it:
https://unsigned.io/hardware/RNode.html https://reticulum.network/
Same goes for other projects using the same frequencies. WiFi HaLow, LoRa/Meshtastic/LoRaWAN, Z Wave, Zigbee, Sigfox. All great tech.
Nice, that is a pretty cool use of radio signal.
Cut off internet for people who pirate... Those people are now unable to stream anything... Sacrifice thousands in potential revenue over an infringement that maybe cost them a few dollars, if that... Deter no one because everyone thinks they won't get caught.
Good move. Smart guys.
do these dumbasses think people pirate without vpns?
We once got a letter from our isp because someone who was at our dnd game night was using our internet to download shit without telling us so that was fun.
He stopped when we showed him the letter (he was the only guy with a laptop so it had to be him at the time)
surely this is only for torrents right? there should be no way they can detect DDL.
ah all good....nothing is lost. everytime ppl hate murican corpos more, the world becomes a better place.
apple making it hard to install warez, google forcing playstore,gsf and manifest3 on ppl
everything american is always shit. period. because entire culture is built on being a shit person. dont blame tump or sony or microsoft...it is the american people that just suck all the time.
Do not conflate the people with the corporations.
And let's not ignore the fact that many nations were happy to buy and profit until the USA government turned into a bargain sale for billionaires.
as an American this is an absolute truth nuke.
As an American, I approve this message. It's accurate.
Sony: still trying to make the Betamax monetization plan work....
Shut up, Sony. Stop pirating Adobe Apps then.
Emigrating to internet friendly country is something I'd do in a week. I guess sharing someone else's internet, or account identity is an option.
Knocking neighbors offline so there's more hands for making molotov.. good plan 😼
I may or may not have been pirating media for over 20 years and this song and dance will never end.
Sure, the well known torrent sites have marginally less content and seeds than before but my Plex server may or may not still be packed full of classics and the latest releases.
The above may or may not be purely fictional and victimless. And no, I wouldn’t “steal a handbag.” Handbags aren’t infinite digital replicas, and handbag owners don’t drive supercars.
(I draw the line at software largely due to the risks, and partly due to Mac apps and Adobe suite being locked down pretty well. I’m happy to pay for software regardless. Netflix and Amazon on the other hand…)
Well streaming shouldn't have fucking won
We were trying to be reasonable and compromise... I know, how naive of us
Now that the streaming industry plunged head first into enshitification, we are back to our previously held practices
Absolutely diabolical. Cutting off internet access is no different than cutting of electricity in modern society. Sure, you can live without it, but everything from paying your bills to getting a job or having a social life just got a whole lot harder. Fuck anyone who thinks this is a reasonable response.
Internet access is absolutely a utility in every function. And like a utility, most people don't have a realistic alternative. Not without sky-high prices and/or slower speeds and less reliability. Thanks, Donald Trump.
The cruelty is the point
Also, the ignorance regarding VPNs.
They would sentence you to death while demanding that you pay for your own execution.
Libertarian police
I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.
“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”
“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”
“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”
The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”
“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”
“Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”
He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.”
“Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”
I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.
“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t.
“Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up.
“Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?”
It didn’t seem like they did.
“Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Penn Jillette posters.”
Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.
I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it.
“Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.
Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.
“Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.
I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!”
He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.
“All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.”
“Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy.
“Because I was afraid.”
“Afraid?”
“Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.”
I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.
“Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.”
He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me.
Original Credit: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertarian-police-department>>>>>
Thank you for this. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard on my lunch break ever
Maybe Sony should have some things cutoff for that root kit, hmmm?
I'm so glad the internet hasn't forgiven them for that.
I'm a bit sad that not everyone remembers when they made up a movie critic so they would have good quotes to put on ads for Sony Pictures movies.
I also haven't forgiven them for trying to sue people for simply watching the Geohot video, or removing alternative OS functionality from the PS3, or for trying to reinvent MMC/SD memory cards in a different shape and charge more for for them. Hell, I still haven't forgiven them for SonicStage.
I won't buy anything from Sony for any reason. I don't care what it is. I made damn sure my most recent camera purchase wasn't a Sony, no matter what the reviews said. That's because they pissed me off 20 years ago and haven't demonstrated any improvement in behavior since. Nerds have long memories.
as digitized almost all societal functions are, we really should define basic internet access as a human right.
Is music piracy is still a major thing these days? I've not even considered it for years, because every music streaming platform has all the music, it seems.
Movie and TV show piracy must be so much more rampant because of the fragmentation creating inconvenience to consumers.
Music piracy isn't rampant at all. It's the "immigrant crime is out of control" of the internet.
It's mostly hipsters with modded iPods, everyone else just streams music. You can stream it in lossless quality on some platforms and download most played songs to your device if your mobile bandwidth is limited.
Hell I'm a weird hipster who likes to have local copies of things and even I've given up.
Japanese corporate culture is fucking terrible. I don't understand how anyone can support these gaming companies.
Edit: Gaming/Entertainment