I suspect this is not going to go well when they find poor people who torrent for the community and try to squeeze them for blood in the courts, or find that an academic server is used to seed in it's idle time.

This figured into the cruel, heartless reputations of the MPA and RIAA that persist to this day.

[–] ramblinguy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have the MPA and RIAA stopped being cruel and heartless?

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've turned away from suing pirates directly for alleged costs, because telling a little girl she owes you thousands for downloading a song is really not a good look.

So they've been trying to convince the ISPs to deny service to people, but the ISPs don't want to piss off their own customers (any more than they already do with hidden fees and crappy service).

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Music piracy is all but dead. Video was dying but is making a comeback now that streaming is as bad as cable was.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

It shouldn't be. I'm noticing that some songs just don't exist anymore on streaming services. Don Henley's Boys of Summer for instance, and Play With Me by Thompson Twins (the Cool World version)

Once again, it's up to pirates to make sure that all versions of songs are archived.

[–] Yglorba@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it says that they're all "well we would have rather do it the other way for your sakes" but the fact is that if they thought they could reliably obtain money this way they'd be doing it already. A ton of legal fees are going to be wasted pursuing people they can't catch for one reason or another, meaning that their desire to make the pirates pay their costs isn't going to work as reliably as they'd want.