It's only illegal when an individual does it, when it's a giant corporation, it's called innovation. /s

I wish that would work.

Supreme Court?

I don't think you want that. That will cause every ISP to block VPN and torrent traffic out of fear because essentially this will be "law" being established if they get their hands on it

It's like turning off the electric of someone accused of growing weed. Typical conservative response

so they can go fuck themselves.

They didn't need your permission. That's how they keep breaking records for lowest IQ. ;)

If y'all don't like it, encourage your friends in Texas to fucking vote. This kangaroo court gets to be the reliable Conservative rubber stamp it is, because they're appointed by whatever president is in power when vacancies become available.

Biden was able to appoint two, and Obama appointed two, Clinton one. Bush Jr. appointed four, Reagan appointed two, and Trump appointed fucking six, which explains why they constantly capitulate to big business.

Voting matters. There is so much at stake.

You do realize that federal judges crib notes from judges in other jurisdictions, right? As in, while this ruling probably doesn't directly effect you, if there's a similar case in your jurisdiction, they'll look at this decision and probably side with it if the facts of the case are similar enough.

Or they received a USB cable, which they later used to transfer pirated files, in an envelope... Remove their mailbox! (Or force every postal service person to ignore it...)

Hey someone's gotta keep the average IQ of a lawyer bell curve balanced. I'm pretty sure the 5th circuit is the equivalent to "Florida Man" in the legal space.

The implication of this being that I am behind the times, stuck on outdated tech, and didn't even know it is uncomfortable.

Shhhh

Terminate the users but only the ones that were accused

ISPs won't do shit that would affect their bottom line. If they play ball with this it's a slippery slope to mass cullings of their subscriber base.

In Canada, I get letters (well emails) when I rawdawg some torrents; but it's never gone further than that.

Prior to using usenet, I constantly torrented w/o a VPN (talking 10+ TB of data across 3ish years) and received a new email notice or two every other day. I've still got a folder with 60+ notices. ISP doesn't give af, they just forward the copyright notice in the form it was sent to them, and that's it.

Now though I primarily use usenet and haven't gotten a notice since. Downloads are also way way more reliable and faster.

It is still better be on the err side and leave no trace they can use aginst.

One of my mates has been pinged for it before, but it seems like he just got a stern letter.

I put my setup behind a VPN anyway. Proton hasn't done me wrong yet.

It's not.

The 5th Circuit remanded the case to the district court for a new trial on damages. Record labels can expect a lower payout because the appeals court said they can't obtain separate damages awards for multiple songs on the same album.