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The Supreme Court Is About to Hear a Case That Could Rewrite Internet Access (slate.com)
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"Imagine losing internet access because someone in your household downloaded pirated music."

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[–] 47 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Sony so mad at Cox for not cutting off someone's Internet for downloading they'll take it to the SCOTUS, but they won't even use the frankly abusive laws they already have access to to just sue the end user? What is even going on?

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago*

    Sony wanted mo money. Yo money wasn't enough for them. So they got a jury to agree that Cox owes them 1 Billion dollars.

    Let's all sing about how much we love Corporate Governance.

    ^Please^ ^don't^ ^shut^ ^off^ ^my^ ^internet^ ^telecom^ ^daddy^ ^I'll^ ^drink^ ^another^ ^Mountain^ ^Dew^ ^Verification^ ^Can!^

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Sony is really anti consumer. I went to buy one of their PC games the other day, but it is not available in the country I am presently in right now along with a few other developing counties when I looked into it. So if you want the title, your only option is Torrent it and such which I am sure is common here.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Sony is really anti consumer.

    Throwback to when Sony intentionally packaged literal rootkits on their music CDs, so anyone who used the CD to play music had the rootkit automatically installed. And then when they were forced to make a rootkit remover, they simply installed more malware to hide any file names that matched the rootkit’s name. Which introduced an easy way for hackers to hide their own malware, by simply naming it the same as the rootkit.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Right. I forgot about that. What a despicable company. It is almost like to be successful, you have to play dirty but I am not so sure it is Sony’s fault per se as if they don’t their competitors will, which will always ensure the dirty players win. It is a systemic failure of society that we have allowed unchecked Capitalism which ironically will eventually suck the oxygen out of the room to even its own detriment.

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