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submitted 1 month ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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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[-] ptz@dubvee.org 236 points 1 month ago

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).

[-] DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee 67 points 1 month ago

AI shouldn’t be allowed to touch the internet because it’s basically stealing everything and never giving references which is plagiarism.

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 62 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Gigasser@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Need a new internet protocol that doesnt use ISPs

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 23 points 1 month ago

You want a protocol that will build physical last-mile connections to peoples' houses?

[-] Proposal6114@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

I just woke up everyone in my house with a giggle fit thanks to you. Yes weed is involved.

That was amazing.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

What about avian carriers?

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[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 8 points 1 month ago

I second this. Anyone know the code reference?

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[-] Nougat@fedia.io 233 points 1 month ago

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?

[-] Bahnd@lemmy.world 60 points 1 month ago

That is one way to stop junk mail...

[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

Sign me up!

[-] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 203 points 1 month ago

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

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 98 points 1 month ago

Time to start accusing the judges for shit.

See how they like it.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 62 points 1 month ago

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

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month 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.

[-] ngwoo@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

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

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 180 points 1 month ago

DMCA the fuck out of every media company.

Accuse them of piracy.

Is it true? Who gives a fuck.

Terminate their accounts.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Steve@communick.news 36 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago
[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago

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

[-] ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month 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.

[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 101 points 1 month ago

5th circuit is pure cancer.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

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

[-] ravhall@discuss.online 8 points 1 month ago

All circuits are bastards.

[-] formergijoe@lemmy.world 92 points 1 month ago

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

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Copyrighted.

(Sorry, pet peeve.)

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[-] x2Zero7@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 month ago

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!

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 month 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

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

That was one of the station cars at one of the TV stations where I worked because the station manager rented one at some conference and decided it was awesome.

What a piece of shit car.

[-] Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Station!

Sorry, your comment triggered a memory that i wanted to share for some reason.

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[-] Paddzr@lemmy.world 49 points 1 month ago

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

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 43 points 1 month ago

This is some bullshit.

[-] AshMan85@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago

I thought everyone is innocent until proven guilty?

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month 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.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Did you really?

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[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

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

[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month 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

[-] GroundedGator@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Get letter from crapcast about downloading copyrighted material. Next search: 'how to torrent without isp knowing'

[-] halykthered@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

That is the end of democracy

[-] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago

turns Mullvad back on

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

5th circuit is dystopian political satire level horrendous.

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