Ben Stewart 🔜 39c3Dec 2
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Supreme court debating on whether ISPs should be the police and kick pirates off the internet. If purchasing isn't owning then torrenting isn't piracy. OpenAI's corporate scale piracy for profit is fine, but little Billy torrenting Stranger Things because his family are too poor for the Netflix streaming subscription price that just went up again is a war crime and his whole family can be kicked off the internet. #piracy #drm
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/supreme-court-debates-whether-isps-must-kick-pirates-off-the-internet/
Supreme Court hears case that could trigger big crackdown on Internet piracy

Justices want Cox to crack down on piracy, but question Sony’s strict demands.

Ars Technica
Dec 2 at 10:36pmWeb
Show threadJer-Bear, Thunderous 😤Dec 2
@chrisp I’ve been following piracy related news for nearly 20 years. Piracy has been around for decades before that. Despite those decades of doom-and-gloom over piracy, Hollywood is doing fine. Record labels are doing fine. They’ve lost the piracy battle, but it doesn’t matter, because they’re still wildly profitable. So I would kindly ask the big rights holders to stop their whining and go count their money.
Show threadguppyurDec 2
@chrisp kind of insane that Sony proposed throttling connections so piracy would be impractical. No consideration of what other services might be impacted
Show threadFace ThumbDec 3

@guppyur "Please subscribe to our always online movies and games, all you need is $20 a month and an internet connection. Oh, also we are cutting your internet connection because you didn't use our service."

And good luck if you need the internet service for work, school, your front door, security camera/service, medical services, staying connected to your family and friends.

Show threaddisorderlyfDec 3
@chrisp Can't wait for people to get booted from their ISP for unironically torrenting Linux .iso files because they assume the only reason someone would torrent is because of piracy. It's most of it, but not 100%.
Show threadGuntherDec 3
@chrisp Good motivation to use a VPN. Until they make that illegal too, anyway...