Should people lose access to the internet for simply downloading music?

That's the question the U.S. Supreme Court will look at on Dec. 1, per USA Today. After a jury ordered telecommunications giant Cox Communications to pay $1 billion in damages to the music industry in 2019, an appeals court threw out the damages. SCOTUS, then, agreed to hear Cox's appeal that it should not be held liable for music piracy that occurs on its network services. On the other side, major record companies are arguing that Cox should be held liable for the act of not preventing piracy, even if it didn't directly assist with said piracy.

This case has the potential to create strange implications for the future of internet access because the music industry feels that companies like Cox should simply turn off i

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