Altice, owner of Internet provider Optimum, is not content with the RIAA’s refusal to share detailed information about its anti-piracy efforts. The ISP subpoenaed the music group to obtain potential key evidence for use in its defense against a piracy liability lawsuit filed by record labels. Faced with the RIAA’s objections, Altice has filed a motion to compel.
Record labels (and the like) suing ISPs like this is such a weird fucking take. Like, imagine book publishers sending their agents to markets, libraries, book shops, etc. and noting down every single book sold and who bought them, then suing the local council/government/roading organisation if they discovered off brand books or even second hand books for allowing book pirates to drive those books along the roads.
Or how about suing the power companies for providing power to pirates, or computer hardware manufacturers, or farmers for growing the food that pirates eat…
ISP flipping script on “media” owner parasites… the best customer protection a pleb can expect in 2024 🤡
Sadly, in Canada, the ISPs are the media owners. The Big Three (Bell, Rogers, and Telus) and own basically all of the media and all the telecom infrastructure in most of Canada, and they share Quebec with Quebecor media.
comcast is part of the similar corpo shit salad
ISPs will send warnings but i don’t think they will anything beyond that. they don’t want waste their money defending another corpo’s “property”
a good VPN is worth every penny, since otherwise all your browsing data is being sold to data brokers.
It might be being sold even with a VPN, since VPNs aren’t really a privacy product in and of themselves. They need to be combined with other practices to be effective in that regard.
For example, for social media like YouTube, I sandbox it inside a browser container, then blacklist any scripts from them anywhere else on the web using uBO. So javascript from Google can run inside the YouTube container, but if a page tries to load a Google script on another site, it never connects. Google can’t track me across the web, because the only site they ever see me on is YouTube, and not through my actual IP even then. And it probably goes without saying, but I use a throwaway Google account for YouTube. I make fun of Zios a lot online, so if I ever get banned, I can be back on YouTube in a couple minutes without there being any real consequences.
It makes me very happy to see corporate assholes going at each other’s throats.
