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ISPs tell Supreme Court they don’t want to disconnect users accused of piracy (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Four more large Internet service providers told the US Supreme Court this week that ISPs shouldn't be forced to aggressively police copyright infringement on broadband networks.

While the ISPs worry about financial liability from lawsuits filed by major record labels and other copyright holders, they also argue that mass terminations of Internet users accused of piracy "would harm innocent people by depriving households, schools, hospitals, and businesses of Internet access." The legal question presented by the case "is exceptionally important to the future of the Internet," they wrote in a brief filed with the Supreme Court on Monday.

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[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Copyright is the same for everyone; corporations or people, rich or poor. Financially speaking, this issue has close to 0 to do with individual content creators, much less struggling ones. They are simply not the big content owners.

PR companies know that people care about the individual. So when they shill for a law, they will send in some individual. It's never about money for corporations or the rich, but always about the "hard-working American"; and then say hello to some Joe, the plumber. I can see why artists on social media would discourage their followers from going to the competition. But the whole copyright angle won't save anyone's job.