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Sky Wins Irish Court Order to Unmask 300 Pirate IPTV Users via Revolut Bank

65 pointsby nixassyesterday at 8:04 PM35 commentsview on HN

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silisiliyesterday at 10:00 PM

I'm pretty uneasy about legal action against the subscribers themselves. If you can prove intent, maybe? But I'd argue many or even most don't realize they're doing anything illegal.

These IPTV companies, in my experience, never advertise that it's illegal. It's just give us money for a lot of TV channels, just like a cable company does.

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pjc50yesterday at 10:31 PM

Huh, Ireland has copied English law so precisely that it also has Norwich Pharmacal and Anton Pillar orders?

(De anonymozation of third parties and non-crime search warrants respectively)

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AuthAuthtoday at 1:16 AM

Sky should sue the AI companies if they want to protect their copyright. Anything else is a joke and an insult to fair laws.

zoklet-enjoyertoday at 12:43 AM

Home Taping Is Killing Music

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Asookayesterday at 10:06 PM

Good. The internet is meant to uplift human society, not enable petty theft. If only they could have gone after each thief to take back the money they stole.

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