This is equivalent to asking the road construction workers and engineers to be held accountable for those that break the speed limit
Sue the air while you are at it for carrying the electromagnetic waves of bits of internet.
Copyright maximalists pretty consistently are glad to pirate stuff that isn’t theirs when it is suddenly expedient to do so.
As with when the studios and labels push for legal anti-piracy measures, I call shenanigans.
This is not our first rodeo: when a ten-year-old girl downloads the latest release in her favorite literary series because she’s too poor, and we no longer support our libraries to have current selections, no-one is going to want to prosecute the little girl who wants to read.
Well, maybe some billionaires might, but the media would have a field day with it.
They shouldn’t know what their users are doing, they are providers not monitors, so how can they be accountable?
The server should not be responsible for the food they bring to the customer or for what the chef cooks.
Come back once you have dealt with the thieving AI companies.
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That string of 1’s and 0’s is mine!!!
Bit of a stretch the way this is angled…
Interesting to see the reactions here; how they differ from other lawsuits that pit “authors” and “artists” against tech companies.
This isn’t authors/artists vs tech companies, this is rights holders vs consumers. Rights holders are trying to be able to pressure ISPs to be able to punish consumers for alleged infringements.
Nice try. But this is explicitly the “Authors’ Guild” and others.
Huh, it’s almost like each issue has nuance.
