23.06.2017 - 13:14 [ Techdirt ]

How The Supreme Court‘s Recent Free Speech Ruling May Destroy Hollywood‘s Plans To Kick People Off The Internet

As we noted in our original post, I expect that to be quoted in many other cases — and a big one may be the ongoing attempts right now by the legacy entertainment industry to force ISPs to kick people off of their service based on accusations (not convictions) of infringement. Those cases, like this Packingham case, involve using a law to claim that people should be blocked from using the internet. And based on the quotes above, it seems quite likely that parts of the DMCA are clearly unconstitutional.