Court blocks $1 billion copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users’ piracy - eviltoast

Court blocks $1 billion copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users’ piracy::“Cox did not profit from its subscribers’ acts of infringement,” judges rule.

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    9 months ago

    None of those analogies really work as there are certain protections which could be required by law by ISPs, for example. In some countries porn is blocked. In others, drugs. If you allow drugs to be dealt in a school as the principal, you are going down.

    Comparing it to guns (which have few intended consequences)… Yeah nah mate.