Altice, owner of Internet provider Optimum, is not content with the RIAA’s refusal to share detailed information about its anti-piracy efforts. The ISP subpoenaed the music group to obtain potential key evidence for use in its defense against a piracy liability lawsuit filed by record labels. Faced with the RIAA’s objections, Altice has filed a motion to compel.

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    ISP flipping script on “media” owner parasites… the best customer protection a pleb can expect in 2024 🤡

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      Sadly, in Canada, the ISPs are the media owners. The Big Three (Bell, Rogers, and Telus) and own basically all of the media and all the telecom infrastructure in most of Canada, and they share Quebec with Quebecor media.

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        comcast is part of the similar corpo shit salad

        ISPs will send warnings but i don’t think they will anything beyond that. they don’t want waste their money defending another corpo’s “property”

        a good VPN is worth every penny, since otherwise all your browsing data is being sold to data brokers.