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Court blocks $1 billion copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users’ piracy (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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One thing that leaps out at me about this ruling is that courts understand the internet a lot better nowadays. A decade or so ago Sony would have probably gotten away with the argument that Cox profited from the users' piracy; nowadays judges themselves use the internet and are going to go "lolno, they probably would have been Cox customers anyway. It's not like anyone pays for internet connection solely to pirate. And in most areas people don't even have a choice of provider, so how is Cox profiting from this?"

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 9 months ago (14 children)

I’ve never been able to find a private tracker to join in like 20 years of this shit. Everything is closed off to registration and you basically have to find some guy in a dingy alley to suck off for the chance they might give you an invite.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Fuck em, don't need em. Never have, probably never will

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

If you're into audiobooks, Myanonymouse is essential but easy to get into. Other than that, I'm the same. 20 years of torrenting and I've never needed a private tracker

It's mostly just an elitist thing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've been using audiobookbay, does myanonymouse have more content?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

About the same, but guaranteed seeders. Half the stuff on ABB will never download, MaM takes seconds

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

That's great, I noticed ABB doesn't track my ratio anywhere even though they require an account.

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