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submitted 9 months 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 221 points 9 months 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 66 points 9 months 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 57 points 9 months ago

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

[-] lido@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago

Asking the real question.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 219 points 9 months 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 54 points 9 months ago

That is one way to stop junk mail...

[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

Sign me up!

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago
[-] teft@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The entire Bee movie in gif form:

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[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 170 points 9 months 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 43 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Steve@communick.news 33 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago
[-] ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 9 months 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 97 points 9 months ago

5th circuit is pure cancer.

[-] ravhall@discuss.online 8 points 9 months ago

All circuits are bastards.

[-] formergijoe@lemmy.world 87 points 9 months 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 17 points 9 months ago

Copyrighted.

(Sorry, pet peeve.)

[-] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Took me too long to realise that it does not come from "write", but "right"

[-] x2Zero7@sh.itjust.works 50 points 9 months 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 23 points 9 months 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 49 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months 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 5 points 9 months ago

Station!

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

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

He's got an excellently huge Martian butt.

[-] Paddzr@lemmy.world 47 points 9 months ago

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

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 42 points 9 months ago

This is some bullshit.

[-] AshMan85@lemmy.world 37 points 9 months ago

I thought everyone is innocent until proven guilty?

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months 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 7 points 9 months ago

Did you really?

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm working on a decentralised sharing protocol, which means nobody would know what people are doing in the first place (except if they compromise your pc ofc).

It's in its early stages but has a fully functional implementation.

You can check it out, how it functions, how to install and use it etc here : https://tenfingers.org

Any feedback greatly appreciated!

[-] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago

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

[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 9 months 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 9 months ago

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

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

That is the end of democracy

[-] halykthered@lemmy.ml 18 points 9 months 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.

[-] neoman4426@fedia.io 7 points 9 months ago
[-] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 months ago

turns Mullvad back on

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 13 points 9 months ago

5th circuit is dystopian political satire level horrendous.

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