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Home 25 Mar 2026 Cox doesn't have to pay a billion dollars Copyright Law Cox cable, like every ISP, has some users that pirate music. Sony sued them in Virginia, claiming that they were insufficiently diligent in terminating users that got DMCA notices, and said they were vicariously liable because they profited from the infringers' continuing subscriptions. A jury agreed with Sony and awarded them a billion dollars. On appeal the Fourth Circuit agreed. Today the Supreme Court said nope, that's not what the law says. See more ...   posted at: 18:02 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Copyright_Law/cox.html 17 Mar 2026 AI scrapebot update Internet A long time ago I set up a toy web farm, which turned out to be very popular with web spiders, particularly the ones from AI companies. To help their training process, rather than just pages of links, it now has paragraphs of training text. See more ...   posted at: 13:48 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/scrapeup.html

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