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Court blocks $1 billion copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users’ piracy (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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One thing that leaps out at me about this ruling is that courts understand the internet a lot better nowadays. A decade or so ago Sony would have probably gotten away with the argument that Cox profited from the users' piracy; nowadays judges themselves use the internet and are going to go "lolno, they probably would have been Cox customers anyway. It's not like anyone pays for internet connection solely to pirate. And in most areas people don't even have a choice of provider, so how is Cox profiting from this?"

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[–] LazerDickMcCheese 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fuck em, don't need em. Never have, probably never will

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

If you're into audiobooks, Myanonymouse is essential but easy to get into. Other than that, I'm the same. 20 years of torrenting and I've never needed a private tracker

It's mostly just an elitist thing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I'd say it's more convenience than elitism.

I'm in BTN and it's the only indexer I use for my Sonarr instance because it has absolutely everything. I've never not been able to find something and almost everything I download will saturate my 1.2 Gbps connection.

For Radarr I don't have any private trackers and it takes 35 public trackers to get coverage that is almost as good. The options I'm given are way less organized and download speeds are a gamble. It's not really an issue because I rarely watch movies, but I definitely understand why private trackers are so sought after. I'll eventually try to get into some smaller ones which tend to be pretty easy to do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've been using audiobookbay, does myanonymouse have more content?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

About the same, but guaranteed seeders. Half the stuff on ABB will never download, MaM takes seconds

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That's great, I noticed ABB doesn't track my ratio anywhere even though they require an account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Between The Internet Archive, Anna’s Archive, and AudiobookBay, I’ve never struggled to find books on public trackers.