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Well, it's definitely a new historical era in which old precedents are being thrown out and new ones made. I'm sure anti-piracy organizations will use this to their advantage soon to make a deal with ISPs to block suspected piracy sites. Also I do wonder if we'll see U.S. ISPs refuse to allow access to certain sites based on religious freedom grounds soon.


I don't think any US conception of "net neutrality" was going to protect the suspected piracy sites.


The issue comes down to what we consider "piracy".

- P2P networking by itself is not piracy, but the casual connection can put a lot of honest sites in danger, from malicious actors.

- If the Internet Archive survives its current ideal, this is an easier way to kill that off.

- Any storage company that can't pay enough money can be thrown off the map. You can share files, which may or may not be copyright after all.

rulings like these start to make the cracks.


The Internet Archive just got its ass handed to it in a court case about these issues so I feel pretty comfortable with the conclusion I drew upthread.


Well the publisher won in public opinion if that's your interpretation. Now anything trying to be a digital archive is privy to being taken down. A very dangerous precedent. I fear for the Wayback machine more or less letting corporations rewrite history


I agree. Pro-abortion sites, pro-LGBTQ+ sites, any site that goes against the right will be pressured (whether by the government or by PAC-funded lawsuits) to be dropped or blocked.




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