It means if you accuse an AI company if piracy the ISP will have to disconnect them.

Nintendo smiles at this.

If there is one thing the Conservative Majority SCOTUS likes is a to "answer" a question no one is asking.

Citizens United was based off an FEC decision about the Michael Moore, a commercial film maker, the docudrama Farenheite 9/11 which was critical of the Bush administration's response to the 9/11 territorist attacks. The Complaint was the film was political advertisement 60 days before a general election. The FEC decided the film could be aired before the 2004 election as it didn't support one candidate and only referenced how it was handled not current commentary In advertisements, and therefore was not not a political advertisement for a single candidate.

In response, Citizens United produced a "documentary" Celcius 41.11" which was critical of the Farenheite 9/11 and John Kerry's actual policies. The FEC ruled this was clearly was a political advertisement put out by not a bona fide commercial film studio, and therefore could no be aired 60 days out from a general election.

What was argued to SCOTUS: Celcius 41.11 should be legal bc we did like Farenheite 9/11 and do not like John Kerry's 2004 presidential policies

What SCOTUS ruled: Coperations could spend unlimited funds to be critical of an individual's policies just so long as there was no coordination between the corporation and the candidate that said that the corporation supports

Even if you were convicted of it that doesn't seem like a suitable punishment. What if you didn't even use the Internet to copy whatever it was? If I used a VCR to copy a video would I be banned from VCRs?

Why does the copyright owner get to dictate the punishment? When someone steals from a regular person the judge doesn't ask the person what the punishment should be.

So... Meta?

Me: *looks at my 10-15TB/mo VPN usage*

It's totally legit, I swear! Nothing but Linux ISOs and repo clones!

That tends to happen in autocratic states.

Dont doomsay so much, there's a completely reasonable balance.... that we are exceptionally far away from, because society is a kangaroo court on sale for the highest bidder.

The only reason I think this won't pass is AI needs to steal copy written data. If there wasn't a corporate shithead doing it then I'm sure the Supreme Court would allow this

I have a collection of 240TB of (mostly) pirated material. I'm uploading 10s of TB a month, downloading ~3TB per month. All going through a VPN, and have never received a notice. Granted, I have unlimited 5 gigabit service at a residential address, so I'm guessing my ISP is catering to people like me with that offering.

VPN.