ISP Grande loses appeal as 5th Circuit sides with Universal, Warner, and Sony.

Music publishing companies notched another court victory against a broadband provider that refused to terminate the accounts of Internet users accused of piracy. In a ruling on Wednesday, the conservative-leaning US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit sided with the big three record labels against Grande Communications, a subsidiary of Astound Broadband.

The appeals court ordered a new trial on damages because it said the $46.8 million award was too high, but affirmed the lower court’s finding that Grande is liable for contributory copyright infringement.

  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    2 months ago

    “And then we can do a hybrid model” congratulations you just invented an ISP.

    “Then we’ll string wires on poles” congratulations you just invented an ISP again.

    • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      2 months ago

      1. Actually, you’ve invented a cooperative.

      2. Actually, you’ve just made internet access a utility.

      Seriously, you seem really oblivious, the issue isn’t technology, we basically have magic at this point, the issue is breaking the economic model.

      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        2 months ago

        Ok, I still don’t understand how you’ve magically invented access to the Internet Protocol network, but without an Internet Service Provider. Yes, I’ve taken direct action to enable the creation of several WISP networks in the communities I care about. Can you come up with more useless strawmen or do you just want to keep feeling special?

        Edit: upon further review it seems like you think infrastructure just magically maintains itself???

        • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          2 months ago

          This commoditizes wisps, they aren’t only in places with LoS, or with special hardware, while still using unlicensed band.

          And megaisps have 2 barriers that preserve their market position:

          1. Capital costs

          2. Right of way access they got mostly in the 70s and 80s if not from the original bell rollout

          And weren’t you the one who particularly said ‘last mile’? That’s exactly what this is.