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

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

White-collar workers were cool with machines and poorer nations taking blue-collar jobs. Now that it threatens them and their money, the hypocrisy is on full display.

Heh. Yes. It's even beyond hypocrisy. Many will outright say that automation is supposed to churn over these "dirty, boring" jobs while making their own lives better. Even finding themselves on the receiving end of progress, they don't call for a better social safety net. No, they just want to get rent for their property. I wonder how much copyright industry has to do with the steady move to the economic right, through its huge influence on culture.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Well yeah, but the displaced workers should get a share of the profits. Most proponents of automation are also proponents of a UBI. It's not supposed to be an existential threat.