I hope this doesn't make it harder to find MMA fights streams...
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A ruling like this won't do anything. People will still find a way to get on the sites. Information wants to be free.
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This ruling won't do anything to the "pirates" but will force the ISP to develop a mechanism to enforce the blocking... which can be re-applied to the next website they're commanded to squelch.
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Which pirate streaming services? Are they hitting fmovies?
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The orders came in three essentially identical rulings (see here, here, and here) issued on April 26 in US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Each ruling provides a list of 96 ISPs that are expected to block the websites, including Comcast, Charter, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile. But the rulings say that all ISPs must comply even if they aren't on the list.
The defendants' "various services and hardware permit end-user consumers to bypass the Plaintiffs' encryption to view Plaintiffs' content".
Financial institutions face similar bans on doing business with the blocked websites. The rulings directly target the defendants' monetary accounts, saying that plaintiffs "shall have the ongoing authority to serve this Order on any party controlling or otherwise holding such accounts" until they have "recovered the full payment of monies owed to them by any Defendant under this Order." This applies to PayPal, banks, and payment providers in general.
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The TorrentFreak article referenced in the Ars Technica article:
While almost $23 million in damages isn’t an inconsiderable amount, the injunctions handed down in all three cases are something never seen before in a TV/movie piracy case.
It’s not clear how long it will take all ISPs in the United States to comply with the order but the specified landing page is already live at http://zira-usa-11025.org.
US Court Orders Every ISP in the United States to Block Illegal Streaming Sites https://torrentfreak.com/us-court-orders-every-isp-in-the-united-states-to-block-illegal-streaming-sites-220502/
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