[HN Gopher] Sky Wins Irish Court Order to Unmask 300 Pirate IPTV...
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       Sky Wins Irish Court Order to Unmask 300 Pirate IPTV Users via
       Revolut Bank
        
       Author : nixass
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2026-03-29 20:04 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (torrentfreak.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (torrentfreak.com)
        
       | silisili wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | Asooka wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | tene80i wrote:
         | You'll find that a pretty unpopular attitude around here (hence
         | the downvoting on your comment, and I assume mine shortly), but
         | you are right.
        
         | RiverCrochet wrote:
         | Non-sequitur. The Internet only enables the copying of bits and
         | not their theft, as the original bits aren't removed from their
         | source. A remote-copy-and-delete might be considered a theft,
         | but Bittorrent has no delete provisions and that's not really
         | inherent to the infrastructure of the Internet per se (e.g.
         | your network card can't physically make bits on the other side
         | in storage disappear).
        
           | orbisvicis wrote:
           | For example:
           | 
           | 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.
           | 
           | - signed, not-Asooka
        
             | JadeNB wrote:
             | There's a difference between "I am the creator of this
             | content [that I actually didn't create]" and "I am enjoying
             | this content that I did not create." One could argue that
             | it matters, in the latter case, whether you are enjoying
             | the content in a manner with the creator's intention of how
             | you enjoyed it, but, to state one among many possible
             | responses, it is far from clear when I consume media
             | through approved channels that that accurately represents
             | how the creator would prefer I enjoy it.
        
         | KumaBear wrote:
         | Buddy we'd still be listening to cds if pirating didn't exist.
        
         | orbisvicis wrote:
         | That's why I don't feel bad pirating textbooks.
        
       | pjc50 wrote:
       | 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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