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Who the fuck is pirating enough songs these days to get flagged for this. This is crazy. I had to check the date on the article to see if it was 20 years old. Warner Brothers need to fuck off
It’s Warner Music, not Warner Bros.
Altice failed to terminate repeat infringers whose IP addresses were flagged in these copyright notices, the lawsuit said.
So the record label thinks it should have the power to cut off people's internet service, upon which most people depend for at least some basic essentials of living, by simply accusing them of copyright infringement.
I hope the record label is severely punished for this abuse of the (publicly funded) justice system.
USA tho
This’ll surely get me to ::checks notes:: pay for music?!?
What fucking year is this? Do record companies even still release music?
What? Yes there is new music all the time
I don’t think I’ve proactively listened to music put out by a major label in 18 years. Anything I’ve listened to has been a smaller label (that wouldn’t have a legal department large enough to try to pull this shit) or released by the musician(s) directly.
This is the type of company that pays people like Kanye. It’s regurgitated, processed, shit - labeled as music.
In these days of WiFi and VPNs, it's pretty trivial for someone to find an unsecured router and start using it to pirate things.
So going after the ISP to find out the name of the home where the piracy is supposedly happening could easily point the finger at the wrong party.
the tactic, like with downloading movies, is hopefully to scare some of them to identify themselves and settle out of court.
In Australia they tried this on with iiNet who told them to get stuffed.
They were taken to court and iiNet won. The appeal was dismissed by the Full Federal Court. Then it was dismissed again in the High Court
See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadshow_Films_Pty_Ltd_v_iiNet_Ltd
The main difference between this and that appear to be that in this case the copyright holders are seeking to identify users, while in that case they had already identified people and were mad they were justifiably ignored when they provided insufficient information when requesting a block.
they do this all the time. remember the porn parody of pirates of carribean, the distributor/owner baited the torrents to donwload so he tried to mass /blanket lawsuit the isp, it dint work.
Altice/Optimum/Shittylink is the worst company to ever exist, had so many issues with them from needing to file complaints to the FCC to actually get any issues fixed to them cutting the upload speed.
Once again showing they are pieces of shit.