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Sky Wins Irish Court Order to Unmask 300 Pirate IPTV Users via Revolut Bank

https://torrentfreak.com/sky-wins-irish-court-order-to-unmask-300-pirate-iptv-users-via-revolut-bank/
42•nixass•2h ago

Comments

silisili•1h ago
I'm pretty uneasy about legal action against the subscribers themselves. If you can prove intent, maybe? But I'd argue many or even most don't realize they're doing anything illegal.

These IPTV companies, in my experience, never advertise that it's illegal. It's just give us money for a lot of TV channels, just like a cable company does.

Asooka•54m ago
Good. The internet is meant to uplift human society, not enable petty theft. If only they could have gone after each thief to take back the money they stole.
tene80i•46m ago
You’ll find that a pretty unpopular attitude around here (hence the downvoting on your comment, and I assume mine shortly), but you are right.
RiverCrochet•36m ago
Non-sequitur. The Internet only enables the copying of bits and not their theft, as the original bits aren't removed from their source. A remote-copy-and-delete might be considered a theft, but Bittorrent has no delete provisions and that's not really inherent to the infrastructure of the Internet per se (e.g. your network card can't physically make bits on the other side in storage disappear).
orbisvicis•31m ago
For example:

Good. The internet is meant to uplift human society, not enable petty theft. If only they could have gone after each thief to take back the money they stole.

- signed, not-Asooka

JadeNB•18m ago
There's a difference between "I am the creator of this content [that I actually didn't create]" and "I am enjoying this content that I did not create." One could argue that it matters, in the latter case, whether you are enjoying the content in a manner with the creator's intention of how you enjoyed it, but, to state one among many possible responses, it is far from clear when I consume media through approved channels that that accurately represents how the creator would prefer I enjoy it.
KumaBear•23m ago
Buddy we’d still be listening to cds if pirating didn’t exist.
orbisvicis•21m ago
That's why I don't feel bad pirating textbooks.
pjc50•29m ago
Huh, Ireland has copied English law so precisely that it also has Norwich Pharmacal and Anton Pillar orders?

(De anonymozation of third parties and non-crime search warrants respectively)

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