Recording Industry of America v. Verizon Internet Services

["Neal Pomea" <npomea@xxxxxxxx>]

As posted by Alan Kabat on the cni-copyright listserv

Recording Industry of America v. Verizon Internet Services 
Misc. No. 02-323 
Memorandum Opinion & Order issued January 21, 2003 by Judge John D.
Bates 

http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/district-court-recent.html

http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/02-ms-323.pdf

U.S. District Judge Bates (District of Columbia) recently granted the
RIAA's  motion to enforce a subpoena served on an Internet Service
Provider, Verizon,  to determine the identity of an anonymous user who
allegedly downloaded more than 600 songs in a single day.  This lengthy
opinion provides an extensive discussion of the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA), particularly its subpoena power.  The
court also discusses the First Amendment implications, but does not need
to decide those issues to grant the motion.  

This decision is also noteworthy in being quite possibly the first lower
court decision to cite to the Supreme Court's Eldred v. Ashcroft
decision!  

Alan Kabat
(Washington, D.C.)
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Neal Pomea
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University of Maryland University College
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