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?”
Don’t believe that you’re always gonna be protected by some judge somewhere.
Get a proper VPN, dammit!
In the end, you can’t out-tech the law. You need rights.
Your so-called “rights” won’t hold to the pressure of massive media capital alone. It will erode away.
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.
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Hmu with that invite then please
Right? People make it seem really easy lol
They are on private trackers too. Just use a VPN.
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.
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Oh nice thanks for that. So should I not worry as much about seeding the private trackers?
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.
“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”
¿???
Skill issue
“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”
¿???
Yo! What’s a proper VPN these days? It seems like all the ones I used to trust went to shit.
ProtonVPN
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.
Mullvad doesn’t do port forwarding anymore, AirVPN seems like a good replacement but I forgot where they are based
Just self-host a VPN on a VPS so you can enable disk encryption and disable logging.
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.
I know the feeling, I used PIA for a while but moved to Mullvad.
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Ain’t nobody going to talk about that guy in the thumbnail eating a CD while wearing that hat? Stock photos are weird.
I miss r/WTFstockPhotos
What do you mean, how do you pirate stuff online? Surely you got the hat on? I mean, I can see biting a hard drive might be more appropriate but the hat, come on, the hat!
And now with AI they can get even weirder, specially if they trained it on already weird stock photos.
When will Sony be sued for stealing their customer’s legally purchased digital media
February 31st.
Too long. I hope on Feb 30
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A federal appeals court today overturned a $1 billion piracy verdict that a jury handed down against cable Internet service provider Cox Communications in 2019.
If the correct legal standard had been used in the district court, “no reasonable jury could find that Cox received a direct financial benefit from its subscribers’ infringement of Plaintiffs’ copyrights,” judges wrote.
The case began when Sony and other music copyright holders sued Cox, claiming that it didn’t adequately fight piracy on its network and failed to terminate repeat infringers.
Cox’s appeal was supported by advocacy groups concerned that the big-money judgment could force ISPs to disconnect more Internet users based merely on accusations of copyright infringement.
If not overturned, this decision will lead to an untold number of people losing vital Internet access as ISPs start to cut off more and more customers to avoid massive damages."
In today’s 4th Circuit ruling, appeals court judges wrote that “Sony failed, as a matter of law, to prove that Cox profits directly from its subscribers’ copyright infringement.”
The original article contains 543 words, the summary contains 172 words. Saved 68%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Really Cox should be paying pornhub.com for such strong “customer acquisition” support imho
