Court blocks $1B copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users' piracy
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Re: Court blocks $1B copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users' piracy
#2Wow, a case between an ISP cartel member and a copyright cartel member. Hard to pick one to root for. Somehow neither side managed to make the other side look like the good guy. You'd think ISPs would do their darnedest to make it so they don't have a way of knowing what content is flowing over their pipes, to help avoid accusations of contributory infringement.
ALSO: The photo of an Internet Pirate is amazing.
Re: Court blocks $1B copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users' piracy
#3Given so many people with strong feelings about copyright law, has there been any widely publicized occurence of jury nullification on a case like this?
Re: Court blocks $1B copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users' piracy
#4That argument could, interestingly enough, technically apply to the power company or landlord as well. I mean people are renting a house and buying electricity to pirate right?
Re: Court blocks $1B copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users' piracy
#5Wow, a case between an ISP cartel member and a copyright cartel member. Hard to pick one to root for. Somehow neither side managed to make the other side look like the good guy. You'd think ISPs would do their darnedest to make it so they don't have a way of knowing what content is flowing over their pipes, to help avoid accusations of contributory infringement. ALSO: The photo of an Internet Pirate is amazing.
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Re: Court blocks $1B copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users' piracy
#6If purchasing isn't owning piracy isn't stealing.
Re: Court blocks $1B copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users' piracy
#7That argument could, interestingly enough, technically apply to the power company or landlord as well. I mean people are renting a house and buying electricity to pirate right?
Nah. The ISP is the actual medium whose network was used to copy the alleged infringing content. So that's not analogous to all the utilities in use by the infringer.
Re: Court blocks $1B copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users' piracy
#8If purchasing isn't owning piracy isn't stealing.
Exactly. It's like if I take a rental car for a joyride. That shouldn't be illegal.
Re: Court blocks $1B copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users' piracy
#9That argument could, interestingly enough, technically apply to the power company or landlord as well. I mean people are renting a house and buying electricity to pirate right?
On a related note, if you're a renter and utilities are included in your rent, be sure to check the lease if there's a clause that prohibits high electricity consuming activities like running a home media server, a cryptominer, or growing certain plants.
Re: Court blocks $1B copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users' piracy
#10That argument could, interestingly enough, technically apply to the power company or landlord as well. I mean people are renting a house and buying electricity to pirate right?
On a related note, if you're a renter and utilities are included in your rent, be sure to check the lease if there's a clause that prohibits high electricity consuming activities like running a home media server, a cryptominer, or growing certain plants.
I lived in a building that had the cost of electricity included in the rent for long-term tenants, but newer tenants had to pay for their own electricity use.
One person I knew in the building was using their "free" electricity to mine cryptocurrency.
This was, in my opinion, not far from stealing. Was it legal? Probably? Was it ethical? Not by a long shot.