Not Good for File Swappers...

Elspode • Jan 22, 2003 1:42 pm
This sucks. The RIAA has already announced that they are going to try and bleed money from ISPs since they've decided that up to 75% of people who have broadband share files. Now it appears to me that they're going to pursue criminal prosecution as well, and they're happy to pursue it via a current judicial system that doesn't mind circumventing a few other legalities to let them do it.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=68&e=1&cid=68&u=/nyt/20030122/ts_nyt/verizon_ordered_to_give_identity_of_net_subscriber
russotto • Jan 22, 2003 2:28 pm
Verizon had better start buying judges.

The RIAA already had this one in their pocket, as evidenced by his use of the term "copyright theft" (which is NOT a legal term) in the decision.
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