Cable company Altice agreed to give Warner and other record labels the names and contact information of 100 broadband subscribers who were accused of pirating songs.
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.
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.
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
