You stole a bottle of sprite from the store?
No running water for you.
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The level of short sightedness in this pursuit is laughable, even if it's coming from corporate.
You pirated a song?
Well then, we're going to cut off your internet so that we can never effectively market anything we make to you ever again.
We'll gladly lose out on all the revenue you normally spend on corporate movies, tech, and content because we'd rather hyper fixate on the pennies of lost revenue that mp3 cost us, than ever worry about the macro economic conditions of the real people it comes from.
Fucking LOL.
It’s the same idea as “death penalty will scare people out from committing murder”
The hope is the threat will stop new people from getting into that
My Google account that I had for 15+ years got banned from YouTube when I let my 9 year old play around making edited videos. He'd mash up clips from PBS Kids and other places. Apparently PBS didn't like this and after a couple of vague warnings, my account is banned from YouTube for life, no actual chance of appeal. Of course I could just ditch it and open a new account under another name, but I'm stubborn, over seven years have passed and they're still silent on the issue. I can watch YouTube, but not comment or post videos. Oh well.
Death penalty is an ineffective deterrent mostly because people tend to commit the crimes it's used as a punishment for while not thinking, or caring, about the consequences at all.
Now, forget cutting off the internet, if you'd get the death penalty for getting caught pirating music, it would prove to be a very effective deterrent at stopping it. I guarantee, zero piracy after a few years.
A lot smaller population left to buy the legal media too, though, but hey, no pesky pirates!
Death penalty is an ineffective deterrent mostly because people tend to commit the crimes it’s used as a punishment for while not thinking, or caring, about the consequences at all.
People pirate for not caring about the consequences
Death penalty for its use cases though is getting off easy. That’s why you find people killing themselves either with murder-suicide or suicide in prison
It’s like “what if we gave you no punishment at all”
It's cyclical. The current generation of executive assholes failed to learn the lesson of their predecessors.
For me it's having a kind of Streisand Effect.... Is there a mass torrent of just Sony songs I can grab? Cus fuck em, I want it just out of spite
Forget marketing. They want every game to require logging in to their servers. You won't even be able to buy or play their games.
They plan on suing all the ai companies too?
They won't sue their intelligence providers
They could but let's be honest, the AI companies have no capital to take. They're just one big ponzi scheme waiting to collapse as soon as new investors stop coming in faster than they leave.
Spectrum had a policy like this at one point. They'd shut you off after a couple of instances of p2p that were reported. Afterwards, they directed you into a captive portal with some plausible deniability where you had to say "I don't know what happened, but it won't happen again".
Nowadays they just send you an email but don't restrict access.
Either way the Internet isn't too safe, protect yourself with at least a VPN.
I've never forgiven Sony for decades deleting an account with paid for expensive games on it, they claimed inactivity for 6 months and UK law meant they had to.
No other account (with purchases) I have has ever just got deleted on me and you better believe Sony are never getting a single penny from me again.
Microsoft stole my copy of minecraft when they bought it
Same
Fuck you Sony...
Signed a lifelong pirate.
I won't use a phone company that listens to my calls and criticizes me for who I speak with. I won't use an internet provider that monitors what I download or shares that info with third parties. The only other way to catch someone downloading, is if an agent of the copyright holder is uploading the torrent file.
If you hire private security to give me free beer outside of your store, you can't accuse me of shoplifting because I accepted the free beer.
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Cut us all off, so corporate can use internet, what they meant to use it for. Corporate Porn.
Um, has there ever been a time Sony, the rootkit DRM company has not called for state intervention to enforce IP laws regarding Sony holdings? (All the while Sony pirates anyone else's stuff.)
This is like the news that Comcast objects to municipal areas opening up Comcast monopoly regions to new ISPs. Sony is almost as bas as Nintendo when it comes to their franchises.
Get a vpn provider. Set the location as the Netherlands. Set up a docker container with deluge and openvpn, and set it up to use your vpn provider.
Voila. You only need run your torrent traffic through the vpn, and it’ll be on its own kill switch.
It costs a holiday and a nice dinner to make the SCOTUS say "um, ackchually, the constitution doesn't say anything about access to the internet".
As an aside that's one of the major things I've never understood about how SCOTUS developes rulings, ie: how they use 'original intent' to figure out current issues.
That's like cutting wizards off from their source of magic
Haha the US is so fucking dumb bro I can't
We need a new internet, a new way to connect.
But what if you could chain the smart phones and laptops of the world together using WiFi and Bluetooth to create a wireless network that was free and open to everyone, with no need for Big Telecom?
https://www.wired.com/2017/06/pied-pipers-new-internet-isnt-just-possible-almost/
Some guy has already done it:
https://unsigned.io/hardware/RNode.html https://reticulum.network/
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Absolutely diabolical. Cutting off internet access is no different than cutting of electricity in modern society. Sure, you can live without it, but everything from paying your bills to getting a job or having a social life just got a whole lot harder. Fuck anyone who thinks this is a reasonable response.
Internet access is absolutely a utility in every function. And like a utility, most people don't have a realistic alternative. Not without sky-high prices and/or slower speeds and less reliability. Thanks, Donald Trump.
Cut off internet for people who pirate... Those people are now unable to stream anything... Sacrifice thousands in potential revenue over an infringement that maybe cost them a few dollars, if that... Deter no one because everyone thinks they won't get caught.
Good move. Smart guys.
That's dystopian, good luck finding a job besides servicing without internet.
Like shouldn't they just be suing the customers directly for a bazillion dollars at this point?
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