“Imagine losing internet access because someone in your household downloaded pirated music.”

  • deathbird@mander.xyz
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    1 day ago

    Sony so mad at Cox for not cutting off someone’s Internet for downloading they’ll take it to the SCOTUS, but they won’t even use the frankly abusive laws they already have access to to just sue the end user? What is even going on?

    • ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works
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      15 hours ago

      Sony is really anti consumer. I went to buy one of their PC games the other day, but it is not available in the country I am presently in right now along with a few other developing counties when I looked into it. So if you want the title, your only option is Torrent it and such which I am sure is common here.

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        11 hours ago

        Sony is really anti consumer.

        Throwback to when Sony intentionally packaged literal rootkits on their music CDs, so anyone who used the CD to play music had the rootkit automatically installed. And then when they were forced to make a rootkit remover, they simply installed more malware to hide any file names that matched the rootkit’s name. Which introduced an easy way for hackers to hide their own malware, by simply naming it the same as the rootkit.

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      Sony wanted mo money. Yo money wasn’t enough for them. So they got a jury to agree that Cox owes them 1 Billion dollars.

      Let’s all sing about how much we love Corporate Governance.

      Please don’t shut off my internet telecom daddy I’ll drink another Mountain Dew Verification Can!

    • Typhoon@lemmy.ca
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      Because those laws aren’t doing enough to scare people into obeying. This is the next step in trying to terrorize people into submission.