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minus-squareArt35ianlinkfedilinkEnglish47•edit-21 year agoa) discussions aren’t a crime. b) what are studios going to do to the hundreds of millions of daily pirates? Write stern letters? c) they tried identifying us and sending us stern letters in 2001 and we all laughed, then kept pirating anyway.
minus-square@Spotlight7573@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agob and c) Go after the ISPs who don’t disconnect the pirating users and sue them instead. Go after the deep pockets.
minus-square@Arcane_Trixster@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish9•1 year agoThey did that too. Most ISP’S outside of Comcast shrugged as well. The studios lost this fight almost 2 decades ago.
a) discussions aren’t a crime.
b) what are studios going to do to the hundreds of millions of daily pirates? Write stern letters?
c) they tried identifying us and sending us stern letters in 2001 and we all laughed, then kept pirating anyway.
b and c) Go after the ISPs who don’t disconnect the pirating users and sue them instead. Go after the deep pockets.
They did that too. Most ISP’S outside of Comcast shrugged as well. The studios lost this fight almost 2 decades ago.