Copyright holders hire services that use bots to monitor file-sharing networks and send ISPs millions of notices a year alleging infringement by someone at a particular IP address, Cox told the Supreme Court. Cox said that ISPs “have no way of verifying whether a bot-generated notice is accurate” and that even if the notices are accurate, terminating an account would punish every user in a household where only one person may have illegally downloaded copyrighted files.

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      If there is one thing the Conservative Majority SCOTUS likes is a to “answer” a question no one is asking.

      Citizens United was based off an FEC decision about the Michael Moore, a commercial film maker, the docudrama Farenheite 9/11 which was critical of the Bush administration’s response to the 9/11 territorist attacks. The Complaint TX the film was political advertisement 60 days before a general election. The FEC decided the film could be aired before the 2004 election as it didn’t support one candidate and only referenced how it was handled not current commentary In advertisements, and therefore was not not a political advertisement for a single candidate.

      In response, Citizens United produced a “documentary” Celcius 41.11" which was critical of the Farenheite 9/11 and John Keyy’s actual policies. The FEC ruled this was clearly was a political advertisement put out by not a bona fide commercial film studio, and therefore could no be aired 60days out from a general election.

      What was argued to SCOTUS: Celcius 41.11 should be legal bc we did like Farenheite 9/11 and do not like John Kerry’s 2004 presidential policies

      What SCOTUS ruled: Coperations could spend unlimited funds to be critical of an individual’s policies just so long as there was no coordination between the corperation and the candidate that said that the corporation supports

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          Well, that was a bit of a stretch. Citizens United was challenging the law used by the FEC to stop their film. That law was first and foremost a law about banning advertising, money collection, and campaigning by non-campaign sources. So the Supreme Court was answering the asked question.

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    I once (I’m old) loved Sony. The Japanese made-in-germany-brand with excellence, brilliance and innovation. I blindly purchased every new gadget, my house was full of Sony products.

    Today, reading this and everything before that. I’m tired, boss. Corporates suck ass and totally lost sense how people work and what people do. We’re all just numbers that need to fit in.

    Long story short: Fuck Sony, nowadays I do boycott them whenever. Won’t make a difference, but to me.

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    So does that just mean I can claim that I’m an AI company and need to download all this copyright material for my “start up?”

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      The only reason I think this won’t pass is AI needs to steal copy written data. If there wasn’t a corporate shithead doing it then I’m sure the Supreme Court would allow this

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        You see, the corporate shithead will just share a gratuity with a few justices of choice. That’s how this court has been running for years.