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.

  • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    So what’s going to happen is there will be a group that will exploit all the horribly insecure home routers out there with active CVEs that will never get patched. They will then use systems within those networks to do the torrenting, and then securely copy them away.

    Then a ton of people will be accused of piracy just by their IPs and get disconnected.

    I’m sure it’ll be fine…