This being related to piracy feels like a stretch.
this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2024
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Protections of consumers and regulating ISPs is the job of the FCC. If consumer protection gets reduced and things like net neutrality get worse, pirating will get more difficult and/or risky.
E.g. until recently ISP's didn't have to really do anything if a user was caught infringing on someones copyright (e.g. through torrenting). This has now changed and the risk of getting disconnected massively increased. [1]
An example of the worst case might be Germany, where copyright owners can demand the information of a user who was caught infringing on someones copyright. This allows them to sue users directly for damages of sharing copyrighted material.
tl;dr
It is important for us pirates who decides what the FCC focuses on.
It's a big fuckin club and you ain't in it