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How about this: courts can't order ISPs to disconnect customers.
To me, that's like ordering my driveway barricaded because I have too many traffic tickets. If I'm breaking the law, charge me with a crime or sue me. But don't block my internet access, that's just uncalled for.
The ISPs? doing something nice?? for the customers???
Shit, I must have slipped into the wrong timeline or something
It's less work and cost for them if they don't have to do this.
Nope, they just don't wanna be bothered. But if it's a win it's a win.
Don't wanna be bothered/Don't wanna lose that sweet, sweet monthly
It means they can fire the one guy that sends the angry letters and get rid of a printer.
ISPs can't take your money if they cut off your internet
It's without a doubt motivated by their own loss of revenue but a consumer friendly take is still commendable
iiNet in Australia used to fight for their users’ privacy until they eventually sold out.
Shut down their access to computer stores and the power companies while you're at it. Only fair. No piracy without computers or power.
The road that we're slowly headed down actually leads to a reality not too far from what you describe.
Computers are increasingly becoming a nested-doll situation wherein the end user is only given access to a lower privileged portion of hardware that exists within a larger supervisory system, of sorts. It will all be (and currently is) marketed as "for your security" "features" while owner control of computer systems is slowly being eroded.
I want to say as an employee of an ISP I literally dealt with users who essentially couldn't get high speed internet anymore at their address because we were the only option and their grandkids downloaded movies. This put the entire household at a grave disadvantage educationally compared to other households. It shouldn't be a thing.
That this is even legal in the first place is insane. Digital communication is at least as vital, if not more vital that postage. Image someone is just banned form getting post delivered or he gets throttled to only once every other week...
I’m glad I live in Australia where this doesn’t happen thanks to previous attempts by IP copyright holders (mainly US based ones) to have similar policies forced upon ISP’s here and being told by judges here that the penalties and expectations and demands made by these said IP copyright holding companies was over the top and excessive and thrown out of court…..
I think the precedent set here was that downloading a copy of a movie carried the penalty of the monetary cost of obtaining the movie lehally, so its just not worth pursuing. I might be wrong about that.
I had Verizon threatened to shut down my internet. I had been receiving notices for close to a decade via email, I assumed they were all toothless. And that was true in the past
I just called the Verizon copyright office and told them that it wasn't me and I would change my Wi-Fi password 😂
It was suspiciously easy as if they really don't care and are just trying to be compliant
I got a VPN and no longer have to deal with it
