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    The 5th circuit includes Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi so they can go fuck themselves. You think I’ll live by the opinion of some backwater states? Only a corrupt supreme court would uphold this ruling-ohhh fuckity fuck fuck!

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      so they can go fuck themselves.

      They didn’t need your permission. That’s how they keep breaking records for lowest IQ. ;)

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      If y’all don’t like it, encourage your friends in Texas to fucking vote. This kangaroo court gets to be the reliable Conservative rubber stamp it is, because they’re appointed by whatever president is in power when vacancies become available.

      Biden was able to appoint two, and Obama appointed two, Clinton one. Bush Jr. appointed four, Reagan appointed two, and Trump appointed fucking six, which explains why they constantly capitulate to big business.

      Voting matters. There is so much at stake.

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        I mean yes, please vote people.

        However the supreme court is stacked because Bitch McConnell is a piece of shit.

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          FUN FACT: Five Justices of the Supreme Court were appointed by presidents who were inaugurated despite losing the popular vote! That’s a full majority! And purely by coincidence, all of them are Republicans! :D

          …alright, obviously it’s not fun. I can’t believe the audacity some people have to act surprised and offended when people say the Court is illegitimate.

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      You do realize that federal judges crib notes from judges in other jurisdictions, right? As in, while this ruling probably doesn’t directly effect you, if there’s a similar case in your jurisdiction, they’ll look at this decision and probably side with it if the facts of the case are similar enough.

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    This needs to go to the next level. Do some torrenting off of the public wifi at the courthouse and get the courthouse’s internet terminated.

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      Supreme Court?

      I don’t think you want that. That will cause every ISP to block VPN and torrent traffic out of fear because essentially this will be “law” being established if they get their hands on it

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          They mean the next level of courts.

          They aren’t suggesting that you pirate from the supreme court (although I have nothing against it)

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            Yes, they asked, “Supreme Court?” But I clarified that is not what I meant by next level.

            I meant escalate the number of people being disconnected starting with the court that made the ruling. Or perhaps the judge wants that so as to force ISPs to be declared as utilities.

            ISP’s want it both ways. They want the protection of utilities without the regulations.

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    A company “accusing” someone of piracy isn’t proof. Access to the internet is almost essential these days. If you can prove a person is pirating prosecute them under the law with fines or even incarceration if warranted. But stripping internet access from someone shouldn’t be seen as an acceptable punishment for a free citizen anyway.

    Whoever owns the network attached to the IP address also shouldn’t be responsible for actions of every user. Let’s ban an entire company, college, or government institution from the internet because an IP showed up on a list… dumb ruling.

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        Remember to turn off their sunlight too!

        And while we’re at it, let’s cut the wind off at their property as well, so they can’t generate any local wind power!

        And definitely take away their fruits and zinc and copper, so they can’t build their own massive multi-lemon batteries, which they will otherwise rapidly upscale by growing even more lemons, using the same array of lemon-powered LEDs that also grew that weed, all in an infinite loop of lemon kush! We really can’t let that happen.

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    So no due process, just “cut the Internet of the people we tell you to.” What the fuck?

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    The fifth circuit believes regional monopolies should be exploited to control consumers.

    With proper competition, banning someone for suspected misuse would only chase them to competitors.

    The fifth circuit is incompetent.

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    Sony, WB, and Universal logic:

    The people at that address probably use water to make meth. Cut off their water so they can’t make meth.

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      Or they received a USB cable, which they later used to transfer pirated files, in an envelope… Remove their mailbox! (Or force every postal service person to ignore it…)

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    If this is the case then artists should be able to shut down internet access for AI companies that steal their work in those states.

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      It’s not.

      The 5th Circuit remanded the case to the district court for a new trial on damages. Record labels can expect a lower payout because the appeals court said they can’t obtain separate damages awards for multiple songs on the same album.