Der Oberste Gerichtshof lehnt den Versuch von Sony ab, Musikpiraten aus dem Internet zu vertreiben
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/supreme-court-rejects-sonys-attempt-to-kick-music-pirates-off-the-internet/
Der Oberste Gerichtshof lehnt den Versuch von Sony ab, Musikpiraten aus dem Internet zu vertreiben
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/supreme-court-rejects-sonys-attempt-to-kick-music-pirates-off-the-internet/
15 Kommentare
Rare win by the conservative court.
Same Sony that put malware on peoples computer.
They can F off.
ngl this whole saga has been going on since literally 1999 when the RIAA first went after napster. the music industry has spent 27 years trying to sue their way out of a technology problem instead of just… adapting faster
what kills me is that napster had 80 million registered users at its peak in 2001. eighty million. the labels could have partnered with them and built what spotify eventually became like a decade earlier. instead they spent years suing college kids for $3,000 per downloaded song while the entire model collapsed around them
shawn fanning literally showed them the future and they chose lawyers over engineers. and here we are in 2026, still relitigating the same fundamental question. actually saw a post about the full napster timeline a while back if anyone wants the deep dive → [https://404memoryfound.com/posts/napster-destroyed-music](https://404memoryfound.com/posts/napster-destroyed-music)
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So I imagine this means isps will stop sending users warnings for illegal torrents?
Does that include ai companies?
Can someone be legally (not realistically) blacklisted from the internet? I feel like there should be an insanely high bar for that given how much it would absolutely wreck someone’s ability to live in 2026
lowkey the biggest deal here isnt the piracy angle, its the fact that if sony won every ISP would basically have to monitor all customer traffic to avoid liability. imagine comcast doing deep packet inspection on everything you download because sony wants to catch people torrenting beyonce albums lol. glad scotus shut this down unanimously
„We remain on der cyber seas!“ – 😅
Kind of hilarious that the Court relied on a 1984 ruling in a case brought against…Sony. Basically, Sony tried the same argument here that the rights holders used against Sony in the Betamax case. They were literally hoisted by their own petard.
Rare SCOTUS W
Sony’s argument was essentially „make ISPs police the internet for us at their own expense.“ The Supreme Court saying no isn’t pro-piracy — it’s anti-outsourcing enforcement costs onto infrastructure you don’t own.
Why bother? People can use YouTube as a way to listen to music for free, especially for revanced users.
If Sony wins, that means almost everyone will be kicked off internet. It will piss off a lot of corporations.
> Justice Clarence Thomas delivered the opinion of the court. “Under our precedents […]“
Oh, *now* those matter, huh? Wonder how much money he gets from the telecom lobby…
You gotta f*ck up real bad when you make Cox of all companies look like the good folks here.
Sweet Christ I’ve been churning my stomach over this decision for months, thank god.