Copyright holders hire services that use bots to monitor file-sharing networks and send ISPs millions of notices a year alleging infringement by someone at a particular IP address, Cox told the Supreme Court. Cox said that ISPs “have no way of verifying whether a bot-generated notice is accurate” and that even if the notices are accurate, terminating an account would punish every user in a household where only one person may have illegally downloaded copyrighted files.
Accused? Not convicted but accused?!
This Supreme Court may just love that!
Even if you were convicted of it that doesn’t seem like a suitable punishment. What if you didn’t even use the Internet to copy whatever it was? If I used a VCR to copy a video would I be banned from VCRs?
Why does the copyright owner get to dictate the punishment? When someone steals from a regular person the judge doesn’t ask the person what the punishment should be.
I once (I’m old) loved Sony. The Japanese made-in-germany-brand with excellence, brilliance and innovation. I blindly purchased every new gadget, my house was full of Sony products.
Today, reading this and everything before that. I’m tired, boss. Corporates suck ass and totally lost sense how people work and what people do. We’re all just numbers that need to fit in.
Long story short: Fuck Sony, nowadays I do boycott them whenever. Won’t make a difference, but to me.
I had two big screen TVs, receiver, PS3, audio gear, Dv cam. When they forced me to choose between disabling Linux boot on the PS3 or using Netflix just literally stripping away features I paid for, I never bought another Sony product.
They used to fill living rooms and be all over personal wear. Now they make an ok showing in what, mirrorless cameras?
