| ▲ | dnw 6 hours ago |
| This is like ISPs banning customers in the 90s for using Napster to download music. |
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| ▲ | fastball 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| ISPs still do this. Obviously not with Napster, but they will close your account for piracy. |
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| ▲ | esskay 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Depends where you live, in most places they don't bother anymore, in the few that they do a VPN obviously gets around it but it's incredibly unlikely you'd be doing enough to ever be on the radar let alone get caught. That battle was lost long ago. | | |
| ▲ | fastball 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | I believe it is less that they stopped caring, and more that most piracy these days is web streaming, which is much harder to detect than torrenting or similar. AFAIK most major American ISPs are still fairly strict about pirate torrents. |
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| ▲ | Mistletoe 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Or when I would try and place ads in newspapers for my internet companies and they wouldn’t run them because they “don’t run ads for competitors”, okay then, how did that work out for you? Did you stop the internet? |
