Court blocks $1B copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users' piracy

Re:Court blocks $1B copyright ruling that punished ISP for i... by pyuser583 on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @11:30PM (#39450170)

I used to work for an ISP. We were indoctrinated not to even think about what was going over our lines.

The big concern was we’d be sued, and the emails of the opposing law firm would be going over our pipes.

But that was just an example given to us as to why we should back away.

Realistically, the firm was spending its time and energy laying more cables to offer services in a wider area.

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Re:Court blocks $1B copyright ruling that punished ISP for i... by pmontra on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @02:19AM (#39450993)

> The big concern was we’d be sued, and the emails of the opposing law firm would be going over our pipes.

You mean, the mails between the opposing law firm and their customer suing you? That would be bad.

But also the mails between any other parties not in any litigation with you. Or web requests by any random person to any random server.

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Re:Court blocks $1B copyright ruling that punished ISP for i... by pyuser583 on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @02:32AM (#39451066)

> You mean, the mails between the opposing law firm and their customer suing you? That would be bad.

Exactly.

It would only be bad if we were snooping. Which we weren't. The moral is: don’t snoop.

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