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.
5th circuit is pure cancer.
If they were a real circuit they could withstand 10,000 volts.
Cool. Did any AI company pay for all their copywritten material? Surely OpenAI shouldn’t have access to the internet anymore.
Copyrighted.
(Sorry, pet peeve.)
Took me too long to realise that it does not come from “write”, but “right”
God damn it, right in the middle of me downloading a car.
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!
And that’s why internet HAS to be basic human right.
I thought everyone is innocent until proven guilty?
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.
Did you really?
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!
Good fuckin luck with that. You’re just gonna have people adopting more obfuscated piracy methods.
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
Get letter from crapcast about downloading copyrighted material. Next search: ‘how to torrent without isp knowing’
That is the end of democracy
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.
turns Mullvad back on
5th circuit is dystopian political satire level horrendous.
that was my desktop once upon a time
I miss-posted.
