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Glad to have one less reason to incentivize ISPs to monitor every single thing we do on the internet.

They are already incentivized enough by selling the data, more incentives won't change anything.

The ruling said that they don’t have to.

Going with your point, it does not say they can’t monitor and then sell the list of pirates to Sony/etc. for some extra income.

They just didn’t like doing it for free.

Yes, but then the question becomes: which tactics does MPAA and the like will now resort to. Because we know they won't exactly say 'I guess that's it then'.

The MPAA has limited options given they aren’t any sort of government entity with any real enforcement power. All they can do is keep suing as they hope for a different outcome and/or try new forms of DRM.

the US Gov rolls over for anyone with enough money -- trump takes bribes

the MPAA has money, and they will go after the government to fix their problem

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