Four more large Internet service providers told the US Supreme Court this week that ISPs shouldn’t be forced to aggressively police copyright infringement on broadband networks.
While the ISPs worry about financial liability from lawsuits filed by major record labels and other copyright holders, they also argue that mass terminations of Internet users accused of piracy “would harm innocent people by depriving households, schools, hospitals, and businesses of Internet access.” The legal question presented by the case “is exceptionally important to the future of the Internet,” they wrote in a brief filed with the Supreme Court on Monday.
There’s got to be a way to just decriminalize piracy
Sure is.
Same way that a 12 year old smoking isn’t illegal, providing a 12 year old with cigarettes is.
Prosecute the profiteers of the industry – the ones making significant money recording or distributing for profit. Not the ones keeping a copy of the 1s and 0s they found laying around somewhere in the internet.