AT&T disconnects whole families from the internet because someone in their house is accused of copyright infringement
Considering whole families usually don’t pay for more than one Internet connection, this does not seem so extreme…? (Now, if they were doing something like terminating cellular data plans, that would be hair-raising, but I expect they’d quickly start running into false positives in trying to determine who is related to who.)
The internet is not a video-on-demand service, it’s the nervous system of the 21st century. Terminating someone from the internet terminates their access to family, education, employment, civic and political engagement, health care information, and virtually everything else we use to measure whether a society is functioning well for its citizens.
All the more reason to be exceptionally careful when it comes to deciding whether to download copyrighted material, no?
