Technology

59086 readers

3431 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

1151

ISP to Supreme Court: We shouldn’t have to disconnect users accused of piracy (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by flop_leash_973@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

169 comments fedilink hide all child comments

It feels dirty to agree with an ISP on something. But even the worst corporations are on the right side of something from time to time I suppose.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] 4lan@lemmy.world 76 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I had Verizon threatened to shut down my internet. I had been receiving notices for close to a decade via email, I assumed they were all toothless. And that was true in the past

I just called the Verizon copyright office and told them that it wasn't me and I would change my Wi-Fi password 😂

It was suspiciously easy as if they really don't care and are just trying to be compliant

I got a VPN and no longer have to deal with it

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Heh, the one time (or that series of times) I got "caught pirating" was at university, and the IT dept was super chill about it. They "didn't know what I was doing", but we're concerned about my data usage (managed a couple TBs in a month in the mid 00s) and they slapped my hands for it. Was really fun going 'I must have gotten a virus' 5-6 times in a couple months as I dialed in the throttle speeds to a level they were chill with.

Amazing how the tech students always struggled with viruses 🤔

[–] Toes@ani.social 10 points 2 months ago

I remember discovering that if I plugged my laptop into where an abandoned printer was at my school I would get a full 100megabit pipe. At the time that was incredible.

[–] RaccoonBall@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I feel like most people don't even check their ISP email anymore. Why use that instead of the Gmail you've had for 18 years.

[–] 4lan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

No they sent it to my main email, I don't even know if I have a Verizon email address

[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Just FYI. Comments nearly exactly like yours on Reddit were used in copyright troll lawsuits against ISPs as evidence they didn’t do enough to enforce copyright and were negligent and legally liable.

Further when that didn’t work the copyright agency sued Reddit to try to unmask the identities of those people to bring legal proceedings against them to coerce them into testifying against their ISP at threat of being in trouble for their activities. Reddit was big enough to fight off the lawsuit luckily but be careful.