The jury is basically requiring ISP's to monitor your communications. Sure they do already, but that's beside the point. What if some ISP doesn't want to because privacy is their business model?
It's the same with platforms being required to install licensed-content-fingerprinting bots. What gives anyone else the right to make them do free work? Copyright holders need to police their own content.
"If you're losing so little money on the infraction that you cannot file a proper suit in court, it clearly is not worth 250,000 in damages."
Disregarding that piracy often HELPS intellectual properties nowadays, that reasonable legal standard should still stand. You cannot simultaneously claim that it is costing absurd amounts of money to litigate compared to the miniscule lost profits, and that there is absurd amounts of profits missing from each and every infraction
Add in that Sony does illegal and frivolous SLAPP lawsuits ALL THE TIME (TLOU2 anyone?), and I think the default position of the court should be to award damages for pain and suffering to any company or person Sony ever sues.
The jury is basically requiring ISP's to monitor your communications. Sure they do already, but that's beside the point. What if some ISP doesn't want to because privacy is their business model?
It's the same with platforms being required to install licensed-content-fingerprinting bots. What gives anyone else the right to make them do free work? Copyright holders need to police their own content.
"If you're losing so little money on the infraction that you cannot file a proper suit in court, it clearly is not worth 250,000 in damages."
Disregarding that piracy often HELPS intellectual properties nowadays, that reasonable legal standard should still stand. You cannot simultaneously claim that it is costing absurd amounts of money to litigate compared to the miniscule lost profits, and that there is absurd amounts of profits missing from each and every infraction
Add in that Sony does illegal and frivolous SLAPP lawsuits ALL THE TIME (TLOU2 anyone?), and I think the default position of the court should be to award damages for pain and suffering to any company or person Sony ever sues.