Newsflash! Federal Court to RIAA: No, You CAN’T Have that Peer-to-Peer User’s Information!
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The United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, dealt the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) a blow today when it reversed a lower court ruling which ordered internet service provider Charter to comply with an RIAA demand that Charter turn over the information of Charter customers who were using peer-to-peer networks to download music files which alledgedly infringed on the RIAA or their members’ copyrights.
The Court held that the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) under which the RIAA had demanded the information from Charter was not applicable in this situation because… [Continued...]
