Does it have to be a lawsuit? Can it be a big guillotine instead?
Rivalarrival
joined 2 years ago
27 years, actually. Specifically, since October 12th, 1998.
I have been looking for a US ISP with the balls to ignore their obligations under the DMCA since the DMCA was implemented.
If the number is excessively multitudinous, feel free to leave out any dial up providers you used back in the late 90s/early 2000s. You can also leave out any ISP that has since merged into another, or gone out of business.
For me, that would leave five names in 27 years, none of which would be a surprise, and all of which issue DMCA letters.
I would love to hear about even one of the many unicorns you've engaged over the past quarter century.
I read your entire comment. What I didn't read is any information on how I can duplicate your experience. I'd like to subscribe to one of these ISPs, if they are available in my area. Is there a reason I can't know who is providing this superior service?
I would appreciate any advice you might have on a provider who isn't a scum-sucking sycophant of the copyright industry. I assure you, your experience is the exception, not the rule.
Those letters originate from the rights holders, who have leechers in the swarm, verifying that you are actively uploading data to them. Your ISP doesnt care if you torrent, or who you torrent to. They wont originate a letter unless a rightsholder requires them to.
The rightsholder has your IP address, and the name of the file you sent them. Data for those files was sent to their leechers by your IP address, perhaps not by you, but by some machine operating on your network, or through it.
It is possible that the letter to your ISP included a list of both IP addresses belonging to several of their customers, and filenames sent from all of those customers. It is possible that the ISP sent out letters to each of the individual subscribers, and just attached the full list of files from the original complaint.
Who is your ISP? Or do you just use your neighbor's connection?
On behalf of whoever is paying for your internet connection, do not torment without a VPN.
If you ignore this advice, be aware that the aformentioned person will get a nastygram in the mail, complete with the exact title of the torment you downloaded. They have no qualms with outing your darkest perversions to the breadwinner(s) in your household.
Luigi Mangione, white courtesy phone. Luigi Mangione, white courtesy phone please.
F-Droid is a decent replacement for the play store. Lots of FOSS and less-enshittified apps available.
I thought "996" meant 9 hours on Monday, 9 hours on Tuesday, 6 hours on Wednesday, then a 4-day weekend.