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

See you guys in I2P :)

ha. all of my traffic is encrypted and routed through at least 3 pirate friendly countries and servers that don't keep logs. good fucking luck inspecting those packets.

Then pirates will just get smarter. No way for them to see who is watching all of these movies with their VPN and Debrid service.

Lol.

Do ISPs like making money?

Then they shouldn't disconnect users who pirate.

I get notifications from my ISP all the time. They don't do anything though because they like the money I give them.

This is how you get a new darknet.

Always make sure that QBT uses your VPN's network interface. I got some DMCA emails despite split-tunneling a VPN recently, and I realized it was bound to all interfaces by default - that's no good.

All public wifi will be disconnected pretty quickly.

let's all fall on our sword to make sure Disney never loses a potential subscriber for Marvel Wars. Truly, we are defending the interests of the people here

"the internet" is a necessity and requirement to function in society. You can't be denied access to it anymore, it would be disproportionate.

Being accused of will lose you access to basic infrastructure? Why not cut electricity too?

If it's upheld, that's the precursor to full-blown info blackouts, just cut off internet to anyone 'accused' of wrongspeak against the powers that be, which is basically everyone.

This also sounds like SOPA reborn.

Based on that logic, ammunition and arms manufacturers should be held liable for damages as well.

So if Meta is convicted of pirating books for AI training, they lose all internet connectivity? 🧐

I'm not a judge, but isn't internet essentially a utility these days? Cutting someone off because of piracy seems like cutting off electricity or water because they did something illegal with it.

I'm not doing piracy, I am merely training my AI!

This still won’t make me pay for Netflix

And now I'm on a VPN because if they're just gonna cut people off for accusing of piracy they're gonna have to cut off everyone with a VPN.

TBH I should have been behind a VPN before

4G piracy hub go brrrrr? Go ahead, disconnect me. I will get another SIM and resume piracy.

Pirate everything, death to the capitalists.

I nominate we test with out with the Zuck and his networks.

According to the article this is the USA. How on brand.

Here i am again doing my duty https://mullvad.net/en/why-privacy-matters

Life depends more on accessing things online. This would just be punishing people beyond the scope of the case against people.

(Donald trump voice) "We should hold all food companys liable for users violent crimes, this man stabbed another man to death with a spoon! 30 minutes before he ate kraft mac and cheese. It gave him the energy to violently stab this innocent man"

Lets hope they got common sense

The mere accusation causing someone to lose the Internet, which is vital to modern life, would be insane.

Additionally, it would do little to nothing to stop piracy.

I'm not doing piracy, I'm just trading a lot of data packets with a Proton Server in Switzerland, nothing to see here 😉

The unproven claims is the key part here. Also the point of "terminating an account would punish every user in a household" is important as well.

You can fine someone for piracy if you want. As long as they have the standard legal protections. But cutting access is excessive.

What will they do when entire College campuses lose internet access because half their students are pirating text books

So this might be a good place to ask. How is a Trojan Proxy Server suited for anonymous piracy? Is it better or worse in case this passes?

Just do what we do in Canada. Send them threatening letters. It scares 90% of parents into telling their kids to knock that shit off, but they're toothless and can't actually do anything, and the remaining 10% still pirate away. Everyone's happy.

Guess it's time to go underground, sigh.

What about legitimate torrented content? Are they going to outlaw the technology outright? Don't plenty of legitimate downloads use torrents to speed up software updates and such?

Like 20 years ago the RAVE Act said venues can be charged if anyone is in possession of illegal drugs inside of them during an event. Similar in some ways

Better source: https://torrentfreak.com/supreme-court-grants-coxs-bid-to-reexamine-liability-for-pirating-subscribers-250630/

low key hope this happens.

it's gonna be fuckin funny to watch all IT in the US grind to a halt because everyone who WFH can't work because their internet was cut off.

then a week into mandatory office returns someone will get the whole datacenter cut off because they're running torrents from their laptop.

dumb fucks are going after the worst people to fuck with.

• fieldworkers
• women
• gamers
• IT support

don't fuck with IT. they know what filthy shit you watch from home.

thank god i go to ireland to do all my torrenting.

We are going to end up with a super private and encrypted Internet because of it.

Then the AI companies that have openly used pirated stuff could also get disconnected lol. Of course business will be fine and individuals will get shafted who expects anything different nowadays.

So all tech companies?

Is piracy AI scraping?

Don't they already do this in most of Europe?