{"id":106463,"date":"2026-03-25T14:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=77d234ee5f0a03dda8cde69000908796"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:25:13","slug":"supreme-court-rejects-sonys-attempt-to-kick-music-pirates-off-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=106463","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court rejects Sony&#8217;s attempt to kick music pirates off the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/03\/supreme-court-rejects-sonys-attempt-to-kick-music-pirates-off-the-internet\/\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Great!  For a whole bunch of reasons.\nNot cutting people off of utilities for incidental misuse. \nNot penalizing businesses for their users' behavior (and thus incentivizing them to spy on users).\nUnanimous. \nApplicable to other industries.<\/div><p>The Supreme Court today decided that Internet service providers cannot be held liable for their customers' copyright infringement unless they take specific steps that cause users to violate copyrights. The court ruled unanimously in favor of Internet provider Cox Communications, though two justices did not agree with the majority's reasoning.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling effectively means that ISPs do not have to conduct mass terminations of Internet users accused of illegally downloading or uploading pirated files. If the court had ruled otherwise, ISPs could have been compelled to strictly police their networks for piracy in order to avoid billion-dollar court verdicts under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).<\/p>\n<p>The long-running case is <em>Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment<\/em>. Cox was hit with a <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2019\/12\/cox-communications-hit-with-1-billion-verdict-over-music-piracy\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1 billion verdict<\/a> for music piracy in 2019. Although the damages award was <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2024\/02\/court-blocks-1-billion-copyright-ruling-that-punished-isp-for-its-users-piracy\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">overturned<\/a> in 2024, a federal appeals court still found that Cox was liable for willful contributory infringement.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/03\/supreme-court-rejects-sonys-attempt-to-kick-music-pirates-off-the-internet\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/03\/supreme-court-rejects-sonys-attempt-to-kick-music-pirates-off-the-internet\/#comments\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court today decided that Internet service providers cannot &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=106463\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}