Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy
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They could even be totally innocent, the mere accusation is enough, wtf?
Due process seems to just be a recommendation.
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What will they do when entire College campuses lose internet access because half their students are pirating text books
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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 a United Statesian so I have no clue anymore how it works there, but other places have been making the case that the Internet is an essential service and that access to it is a basic right. So to leapfrog off your question, is that like a poor person stealing a loaf of bread being cut off from food because they didn’t food responsibly enough?
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they actually do think that if you stop piracy people will flock back to streaming services when in reality all that will happen is i'll just watch more twitch.
i'd just go to a local fast food resturant and bring my portable piracy machine
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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.
Not even piracy. Accusations thereof.
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This still won’t make me pay for Netflix
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So all tech companies?
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Due process seems to just be a recommendation.
Recommendation???
No.
It's a luxury you can try but only if you can afford it.
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I'm not doing piracy, I'm just trading a lot of data packets with a Proton Server in Switzerland, nothing to see here
It’s like trading cards, gotta trade em all!
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they actually do think that if you stop piracy people will flock back to streaming services when in reality all that will happen is i'll just watch more twitch.
You wouldn't be able to access twitch. You'd have to buy cable TV or an antenna for the free channels. Either way media wins via commercials.
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Here i am again doing my duty https://mullvad.net/en/why-privacy-matters
Protip for anyone unfamiliar: Mullvad really is the gold standard for a private VPN. If you just want to pirate shit and not get angry letters from your ISP, Nord or PIA will accomplish that. But if you REALLY want privacy, Mullvad is it.
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They could even be totally innocent, the mere accusation is enough, wtf?
USCIS can deport a non-citizen for accusations of drug use, including weed.
Let that sink in.
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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.
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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.
Inb4 palantir cuts off your electric and water because you had 15% eye distraction during the mandatory 3hr nightly fox news viewing.
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i'd just go to a local fast food resturant and bring my portable piracy machine
Then they'll lobby against public WiFi. I was in China recently and (depending on the province) you need a phone number to access public WiFi so that they know who you are.
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I'm not doing piracy, I'm just trading a lot of data packets with a Proton Server in Switzerland, nothing to see here
This is actually why I usually install a VPS in whichever country I’m physically in—my end devices always appear to be connecting to something innocent in-country (like a corporate VPN). That VPS then does the double-hop out of the country so that the VPS also seems pretty innocent too.
I don’t think it’s actually more secure though since the VPS is in my name and it’s technically decrypting everything. But I’m a bit less paranoid about that. (I’m not doing tons of illegal shit anyway.)
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I’m not a United Statesian so I have no clue anymore how it works there, but other places have been making the case that the Internet is an essential service and that access to it is a basic right. So to leapfrog off your question, is that like a poor person stealing a loaf of bread being cut off from food because they didn’t food responsibly enough?
Unfortunately the country I was born in, the USA, is also one that voted against the international resolution to define food as a human right.
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Yes, but that would mean that logic has any bearing on what the Supreme Court decides to do
I hate that you're absolutely correct
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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.
more importantly because of accused. Just accused.
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