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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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[–] meiti@lemmy.world 109 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Internet is a utility and should be treated as such.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 49 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Up next Sony sues Pacific Gas & Electric for profiting off of piracy. All those torrents were powered by Pacific Gas & Electric.

[–] Chriswild@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sues corning for making all that glass that transmitted the piracy.

[–] meiti@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

And finally, after suing everyone, sue the almighty himself, who dared to bring all these pirates into existence.

[–] Deello@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago

I agree but the average person doesn't even know what that means.

[–] Uiop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 months ago

If you were a true american you'd be for privatization of all utilties

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