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frightful_hobgoblin ,

One cool thing about piracy battles is ISPs’ interests are aligned with the pirates. It’s the record labels who are against it.

stuckgum ,

Because it takes work for them for no pay. If they get paid they will do it in an instant.

ShortN0te ,

That and they are the bad guy now, not the copyright holders.

electricprism ,

Imagine them disconnecting someone’s land-line phone if they detected heresy against Zeus & Mount Olympus.

They should argue that they are not qualified to be a police force, nor a courthouse. They are simply a private business & a utility.

Eggyhead ,

& a utility

Oh they don’t want that one.

Blizzard ,

The picture: cutting an unplugged cable…

TWeaK ,

If the US only awarded actual damages like most of the rest of the world, instead of inflated punitive damages, then this would pretty much be a non-issue. Rightsholders in the US see targeting copyright infringement as a source of income, not a necessary indemnity.

SuiXi3D ,
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Of course they don't want to force paying customers to, y'know, stop being paying customers.

finley ,

I agree!

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