Sony victory in Cox piracy case could be overturned by Supreme Court.

Copyright holders hire services that use bots to monitor file-sharing networks and send ISPs millions of notices a year alleging infringement by someone at a particular IP address, Cox told the Supreme Court. Cox said that ISPs “have no way of verifying whether a bot-generated notice is accurate” and that even if the notices are accurate, terminating an account would punish every user in a household where only one person may have illegally downloaded copyrighted files.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It was not Netflix. At a certain point Sony decided to strip the future from the PlayStation you didn’t have to strip the future but you could no longer update the PlayStation.

    Netflix was first to require a newer version of the OS but sooner or later every game and every streaming title would require you to update to play the latest version.

    They stripped it under the guise of piracy, It did absolutely nothing to stop piracy. The most they accomplished was keeping you from making a ISO of a disc after a long convoluted Linux install.

    There were already blueray drives on the market that could read them enough to produce an ISO. It’s not like you could play any of the PlayStation games under Linux.

    Furthermore, if you decided you didn’t want to game or stream on it anymore you could have left Linux on it and if anybody was really pirating using that feature they would have just bought another one and played on it. The only person they f***** over in this scenario was the average consumer.

    Well, I don’t own shit from Sony anymore

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        I went from full piracy to legit (netflix, steam etc) just to be driven back to piracy,

        I think most of us who were of job age did the same. $10 a month not to worry about disc failures, shitty updates and they have most of what I want to watch? HELLS YES. We were naive to think they’d keep it going. They’re all trying to get up to that $100 per month per head cable price.