Cox owes $1B to record labels for harboring music pirates, jury decides
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This will end badly for you and me. I suspect there will be large groups of people who are unable to get internet access because they were suspected of some copyright violation by the ISPs, who are now liable and aren't required to be fair or show evidence, or even let the accused present evidence. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually, entire geographic areas will be cancelled from internet services just because of the risk.
ISPs will now have to deal with the fact that a ~$100 a month subscription can now risk billions of dollars. They're not going to take any risks with any subscribers. They're also going to heavily scan all network traffic applying AI network analysis to find any potential offenders and cut them off.
I can see how this could potentially kill the internet as we know it, at least in the US.
On the other hand, however, this same statute could be applied to VPN providers because they do have knowledge of the infringement. It will be interesting to see if US based VPN providers start clamping down on torrent traffic.
Hmm. Like if a city or neighborhood is low income, they might pirate more? So don't give them internet access at all? Kinda like how insurance companies think males are worse drivers I guess or some sort of pre-crime thing. I guess instead of cutting people off totally, you could just create an internet risk score and charge rates based on that? Factor in your location, profession, age, if you are married or not, credit score, smoker or not, etc.
If that happened pretty sad then. Some jobs you can only apply online, I guess some retail jobs don't even print applications anymore and then if you were applying for tech pretty sure Google doesn't print out job applications either. The internet seems just as important as water, electric or phone. I think businesses and other organizations just assume you have it now.
Then not everyone has smartphones either or want smartphones. Someone I know isn't tech-savvy and still has a flip phone. Their insurance agent told them about their new app that could lower your rates that you keep open while driving, I guess it uses the accelerometer (while other companies offer a thing that plugs into the OBD2 port) but I guess he couldn't believe about not having a smartphone in this day and age. I know I couldn't stand using a flip phone, texting and voicemail access was a nightmare, but some people still just want a phone that can actually only just make phone calls.
Then for other people their smartphone is their only access to the internet, which a smartphone is nice to have when away from your computer but I couldn't stand if it was my only device... Even a cheap Chromebook probably be more useful if using the internet a lot.
Could be as simple as a neighborhood has a lot of teenage boys in it.
Regardless this is dumb. Cox shouldn’t have to care what data flows through their network anymore than they care about what people transmit through their telephone networks.
Just use a seedbox service instead.