"Cox did not profit from its subscribers' acts of infringement," judges rule.

One thing that leaps out at me about this ruling is that courts understand the internet a lot better nowadays. A decade or so ago Sony would have probably gotten away with the argument that Cox profited from the users’ piracy; nowadays judges themselves use the internet and are going to go “lolno, they probably would have been Cox customers anyway. It’s not like anyone pays for internet connection solely to pirate. And in most areas people don’t even have a choice of provider, so how is Cox profiting from this?”

  • Prunebutt@slrpnk.netEnglish
    982·
    1 year ago

    Don’t believe that you’re always gonna be protected by some judge somewhere.

    Get a proper VPN, dammit!

    • sub_ubi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      503·
      1 year ago

      In the end, you can’t out-tech the law. You need rights.

      • Prunebutt@slrpnk.netEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Your so-called “rights” won’t hold to the pressure of massive media capital alone. It will erode away.

        • sub_ubi@lemmy.mlEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          They have so far. It’s still legal to use a VPN without verifying my identity. It’s still legal, though difficult, to access the Internet anonymously. The local police department doesn’t blanket monitor everyone’s search history.

          increasingly difficult tech solutions for privacy are a bandaid not a cure.

      • Lemonparty@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Yo! What exactly is different about private trackers? Like how does that help? Im lucky enough to have one but due to the seed ratio rules, I find myself downloading from my usual sites more frequently because I worry about seeding indefinitely.

      • BolexForSoup@kbin.social
        62·
        1 year ago

        Folks need to learn how to rip. It’s a little more tedious but you can’t be tracked and the quality is almost always better. Even the most inexperienced can get started after a few hours of research and tinkering.

      • nintendiator@feddit.clEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        “don’t use public trackers”

        it’s next to impossible to qualify for a private tracker

        let alone if the one you find has the stuff you want

        let alone making their so-called “ratio”

        ¿???

      • nintendiator@feddit.clEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        “don’t use public trackers”

        it’s next to impossible to qualify for a private tracker

        let alone if the one you find has the stuff you want

        let alone making their so-called “ratio”

        ¿???

    • Lemonparty@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Yo! What’s a proper VPN these days? It seems like all the ones I used to trust went to shit.

      • UnfortunateTwist@beehaw.orgEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I personally like Mullvad, their practices, and their straightforward price of 5€/month. They’re not going to try to lure you in with discounts by subscribing for multiple months or years. Now if Mullvad has gone downhill, someone chime in.

        • Miaou@jlai.luEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          Mullvad doesn’t do port forwarding anymore, AirVPN seems like a good replacement but I forgot where they are based

      • muix@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Just self-host a VPN on a VPS so you can enable disk encryption and disable logging.

      • BassTurd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Edit: looks like I need a new VPN…

        I use private internet access (pia). It’s reasonably priced, really good for the number of devices, and I don’t believe they keep logs. At least it used to be that way, but I haven’t checked that since I signed up a decade ago. I have had zero issues with anything or anyone while using it for any reason. Uptime is basically 100%. Also has mobile support if that matters.