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Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene

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The Supreme Court has been asked to intervene in a ruling won by UMG, Sony Music Entertainment, and more, which forces an ISP to terminate customers for piracy.

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The level of short sightedness in this pursuit is laughable, even if it's coming from corporate.
You pirated a song?
Well then, we're going to cut off your internet so that we can never effectively market anything we make to you ever again.
We'll gladly lose out on all the revenue you normally spend on corporate movies, tech, and content because we'd rather hyper fixate on the pennies of lost revenue that mp3 cost us, than ever worry about the macro economic conditions of the real people it comes from.
Fucking LOL.
- It’s the same idea as “death penalty will scare people out from committing murder”
  The hope is the threat will stop new people from getting into that
  
  My Google account that I had for 15+ years got banned from YouTube when I let my 9 year old play around making edited videos. He'd mash up clips from PBS Kids and other places. Apparently PBS didn't like this and after a couple of vague warnings, my account is banned from YouTube for life, no actual chance of appeal. Of course I could just ditch it and open a new account under another name, but I'm stubborn, over seven years have passed and they're still silent on the issue. I can watch YouTube, but not comment or post videos. Oh well.
  
  Death penalty is an ineffective deterrent mostly because people tend to commit the crimes it's used as a punishment for while not thinking, or caring, about the consequences at all.
  Now, forget cutting off the internet, if you'd get the death penalty for getting caught pirating music, it would prove to be a very effective deterrent at stopping it. I guarantee, zero piracy after a few years.
  A lot smaller population left to buy the legal media too, though, but hey, no pesky pirates!
  
  Death penalty is an ineffective deterrent mostly because people tend to commit the crimes it’s used as a punishment for while not thinking, or caring, about the consequences at all.
  People pirate for not caring about the consequences
  Death penalty for its use cases though is getting off easy. That’s why you find people killing themselves either with murder-suicide or suicide in prison
  It’s like “what if we gave you no punishment at all”
- For me it's having a kind of Streisand Effect.... Is there a mass torrent of just Sony songs I can grab? Cus fuck em, I want it just out of spite
- Forget marketing. They want every game to require logging in to their servers. You won't even be able to buy or play their games.
- It's cyclical. The current generation of executive assholes failed to learn the lesson of their predecessors.

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