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ISP to Supreme Court: We shouldn’t have to disconnect users accused of piracy (arstechnica.com)
submitted 3 months ago by flop_leash_973@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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It feels dirty to agree with an ISP on something. But even the worst corporations are on the right side of something from time to time I suppose.

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[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Just FYI. Comments nearly exactly like yours on Reddit were used in copyright troll lawsuits against ISPs as evidence they didn’t do enough to enforce copyright and were negligent and legally liable.

Further when that didn’t work the copyright agency sued Reddit to try to unmask the identities of those people to bring legal proceedings against them to coerce them into testifying against their ISP at threat of being in trouble for their activities. Reddit was big enough to fight off the lawsuit luckily but be careful.