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They’re 100% only doing this for money, but still, nice to see them in the right for once.
A lot of it is the sheer bureaucracy of chasing down actual pirates and weeding them from people who just happen to be on the same IP address.
If one guy visiting an apartment block downloads a torrent from a public connection, what is ATT supposed to do? Shut down Internet to the entire building?
This is an undue burden for ISPs, even if the content isn't living in a gray zone of legality.
... IP addresses are assigned to modems... They don't assign IP addresses to... Cables going to buildings I guess lol but ok.
And if you're in some fucked up place that has the entire apartment complex's internet going to one modem, then God save your soul.
Some apartments double nat