Cable company Altice agreed to give Warner and other record labels the names and contact information of 100 broadband subscribers who were accused of pirating songs.
Who the fuck is pirating enough songs these days to get flagged for this. This is crazy. I had to check the date on the article to see if it was 20 years old. Warner Brothers need to fuck off
In these days of WiFi and VPNs, it’s pretty trivial for someone to find an unsecured router and start using it to pirate things.
So going after the ISP to find out the name of the home where the piracy is supposedly happening could easily point the finger at the wrong party.
the tactic, like with downloading movies, is hopefully to scare some of them to identify themselves and settle out of court.
they do this all the time. remember the porn parody of pirates of carribean, the distributor/owner baited the torrents to donwload so he tried to mass /blanket lawsuit the isp, it dint work.
This’ll surely get me to ::checks notes:: pay for music?!?
What fucking year is this? Do record companies even still release music?
What? Yes there is new music all the time
I don’t think I’ve proactively listened to music put out by a major label in 18 years. Anything I’ve listened to has been a smaller label (that wouldn’t have a legal department large enough to try to pull this shit) or released by the musician(s) directly.
This is the type of company that pays people like Kanye. It’s regurgitated, processed, shit - labeled as music.
The image ars used here is amazing.
