It feels dirty to agree with an ISP on something. But even the worst corporations are on the right side of something from time to time I suppose.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    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.