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This is like ISPs banning customers in the 90s for using Napster to download music.
by dnw 8mo ago
This is like ISPs banning customers in the 90s for using Napster to download music.
- Mistletoe 8mo agoOr when I would try and place ads in newspapers for my internet companies and they wouldn’t run them because they “don’t run ads for competitors”, okay then, how did that work out for you? Did you stop the internet?
- fastball 8mo agoISPs still do this. Obviously not with Napster, but they will close your account for piracy.
- esskay 8mo agoDepends where you live, in most places they don't bother anymore, in the few that they do a VPN obviously gets around it but it's incredibly unlikely you'd be doing enough to ever be on the radar let alone get caught. That battle was lost long ago.
- fastball 8mo agoI believe it is less that they stopped caring, and more that most piracy these days is web streaming, which is much harder to detect than torrenting or similar. AFAIK most major American ISPs are still fairly strict about pirate torrents.