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ISP to Supreme Court: We shouldn’t have to disconnect users accused of piracy (arstechnica.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It feels dirty to agree with an ISP on something. But even the worst corporations are on the right side of something from time to time I suppose.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Heh, the one time (or that series of times) I got "caught pirating" was at university, and the IT dept was super chill about it. They "didn't know what I was doing", but we're concerned about my data usage (managed a couple TBs in a month in the mid 00s) and they slapped my hands for it. Was really fun going 'I must have gotten a virus' 5-6 times in a couple months as I dialed in the throttle speeds to a level they were chill with.

Amazing how the tech students always struggled with viruses 🤔

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

I remember discovering that if I plugged my laptop into where an abandoned printer was at my school I would get a full 100megabit pipe. At the time that was incredible.